the increasing amount of global trade brought wealth as well as economic disruption to merchantsand governments in participating trade networks.b. portugal9s desire for an alternate trade route to india led to the discovery of the americas.c. the success of european exploration was a result of most european nations working together to takecontrol of new trade routes.d. western european exploration led to the spread of christianity to new parts of the globe, especially interritories that did not already have a universalizing religion