The correct answer is D) to avoid paying inflated prices for goods.
Europeans wanted to find a direct sea route to Asia in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries to avoid paying inflated prices for goods.
The Ottoman Empire charged a lot of money to use the trade routes throughout Asia and European Empires did not want to spend that amount of money to the Ottomans. That is why some of them decided to start the exploration of new sea routes to get to the Indias and avoid the Ottomans. These explorations by the Portuguese and Spanish served to discover the Americas, where European powers established new colonies and used the many raw materials and natural resources of the American continent.
