The sixteenth and seventeenth-century maritime exploration efforts by england, france, and the netherlands were most directly connected to which of the following processes?

a) the protestant and the catholic reformation

b) economic competition against spain and portugal as a desire to find new sailing routes to asia

c) the transfer of engineering and navigational knowledge from the classical and islamic worlds to europe

d) the need to ease population pressures in europe by establishing settlement colonies

The Correct Answer is B

Explanation:

The Era of exploration

Europeans searching for New routes of trade:

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