The purpose of the exploration: to expand European geographic knowledge, to find the source of prized African gold, and to locate a possible sea route to valuable Asian spices. • The Arrival of ...

According to a Live Science report, European hunter-gatherers traversed the Mediterranean Sea in primitive […] ...

But he also hoped to find gold. For centuries gold objects from sub-Saharan Africa had made their way to Europe. Some Portuguese even believed that the objects came from a "River of Gold." ...