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:

gaius cassius longinus and marcus junius brutus, former enemies of julius caesar who'd joined the roman senate, led caesar's assassination, dubbing themselves "the liberators." and the second one is   the assassination of julius caesar was the result of a conspiracy by many roman senators led by gaius cassius longinus, decimus junius brutus albinus, and marcus junius brutus. they stabbed caesar (23 times) to death in a location adjacent to the theatre of pompey on the ides of march 15 march 44 bc.

the answer is c.

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