Why were Genoese merchants in the service of Iberian kings exploring the Atlantic and western Africa in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries?

You can add additional sources but please refer to the attached content at least three times.https://youtu.be/X0zudTQelzIChapter Twelve: Western Europe and Byzantium circa 1000-1500 CE from World History: Cultures, States, and Societies to 1500 by Berger et al.Choose one question to answer:1. Who held most political and military power in a feudal system? What factors were the foundations of their power?2. What were some of the factors which led to the growth of European towns in the eleventh century?3. What were some lasting results of the eleventh-century popes’ attempts to reform the Church? In what days did the restructuring of the role of the Church influence the relationships between Catholic and Orthodox Churches, and the relationship between Christianity and Islam?4. How did the Crusaders gain a foothold in the Middle East? What did it take for Salah al-Din to push them out?5. Describe the establishment and then decline of the Holy Roman Empire. In what ways did this decline contribute to the rise of the Kingdom of the Franks?6. Was the Italian Renaissance a revolution in the arts, science and learning, or was it an evolution? Identify two significant contributors to the Renaissance in two different fields and describe their influences or accomplishments.7. What was the Reconquista? What was the impact upon Islam? In what ways did it help create the Kingdoms of Portugal and Spain?8. Why were Genoese merchants in the service of Iberian kings exploring the Atlantic and western Africa in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries?