The leading factor in the european colonization of asia between 1500 and 1800 was the desire

The leading factor was the desire to control a much larger empire, possibly a global one.
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The three steps before modern english were indo-european, germanic, and old english. as peoples moved around the eurasian continent, their languages changed. throughout the ages, the languages became more specialized. as english has many germanic influences, it is easy to see how this was one of the forebears. also, old english was one of the main ancestors of the modern language, spoken in the 5th through about the 13th centuries.