Reasons why england and france would have wanted to find a northwestern route to asia.

Europeans wanted a new route to Asia via the se because traveling over land routes was dangerous and required more resources to undertake. Portuguese sailor Vasco Da Gama was the first European to sail around Africa and land in Asia(india) during his journey from 1497 to 1499

The constant presence of diseases or infectious agents within a given geographic area or population group. it may also refer to the usual prevalence of a given disease with such area or group. it includes holoendemic and hyperendemic diseases. a holoendemic disease is one for which a high prevalent level of infection begins early in life and affects most of the child population, leading to a state of equilibrium such that the adult population shows evidence of the disease much less commonly than do children (malaria in many communities is a holoendemic disease). a hyperendemic disease is one that is constantly present at a high incidence and/or prevalence rate and affects all groups equally. so probably family history.