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Why did countries fund expensive and risky expeditions?

Expeditions made money primarily by discovering new trade routes for their nations.  These trade routes were very valuable as they brought in expensive products such as spices and silk.

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Expeditions made money primarily by discovering new trade routes for their nations. ... These trade routes were very valuable as they brought in expensive products such as spices and silk.

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the president has the power to appoint federal judges, ambassadors, and other "principal officers” of the united states, subject to senate confirmation of such appointments.

. austria-hungary began seizing british colonies in africa.