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新航路开辟的原因及影响（Reasons and influence of new route development） Reasons and influence of new route development First, the reasons for opening of new routes In 15 ~ sixteenth Century, Western European countries wanted to explore the route to the East, after a series of voyages of exploration activity has opened up to India and America around the world route, the route is usually called the new route. The opening of the new route is by no means accidental. It has profound economic roots and social roots, as well as certain religious roots and ideological roots, and the subjective and objective conditions are quite complete. First, the embryonic development of European capitalism and the ensuing seeking gold fever are the economic roots and social roots of the opening of new routes. Since fifteenth Century, the rudiment of capitalist production relations in Western European countries has come into being and developed at the beginning. Currency as a means of payment for commodity exchange not only replaces land as a major symbol of social wealth, but also becomes an important symbol of social status and power. After the gold standard was changed in fifteenth Century, gold became the only means of payment at home and abroad, and demand increased rapidly. When Europeans longed for gold, plus the Marco Polo Commission in Europe, the west to Eastern countries that only China can realize their dreams of gold . Engels pointed out: in India, the Portuguese coast of Africa and the far east looking for gold; gold word is driven by Spaniards across the Atlantic to the Americas to spell, gold is the first thing that white people just set foot on a newly discovered coast is what you want. Therefore, opening up new routes will be further development of capitalism, the Europeans greed for gold from the pursuit, reflects the essence of capitalism to plunder the wealth and accelerate the urgent requirement of the primitive accumulation of capital. Second, the commercial crisis is the direc