Why did europeans travel across the mediterranean sea to reach the silk road?
to obtain cloths, spices, and other goods
to discover ancient religious sites
to escape natural disasters at home
to search for a new home with opportunities

Europeans traveled across the Mediterranean Sea to reach the Silk Road in order to obtain clothes, spices, and other goods.

The Silk Road was a network of trade routes organized from the Chinese silk business since the 1st century BC, that extended by all the Asian continent, connecting China with Constantinople.

Many products transited these routes: precious stones and metals (Golconda diamonds, Burma rubies, China jade, Persian Gulf pearls), wool or linen fabrics, amber, ivory, lacquer, spices, porcelain, glass, manufactured materials, coral, etc.

b) the importance and limits of political power.

c. troops marched forward in close formation against newer, more accurate weapons