Which of the following was one of the drivers of european exploration in the 1400s and 1500s?
a. europeans were driven out of europe by aggressive muslim empires.
b. europeans sought new trade routes to eastern asia.
c. europeans were in a race against african countries to colonize the world.

One importnat driver of European exploration of the 1400s and the 1500s was the fact that they sought new trade routes to Eeastern Asia - B.

The reason why they did that was because the previous trading routes that were being used were being attacked by bandits and were no longer safe. For that reason, new routes had to be found.