The Crusades contributed to the Age of Exploration by creating a desire in Europe for new products and new trade routes to the East.
Answer: Option B
Explanation:
Crusaders had their hand in this era by innovating and developing new products that could be used by people, new resources and new innovations.
They also contributed by finding the way to reach the eastern part of the world where the demand of the European goods was high and this led to the settlement of the entrepreneur and merchants in the eastern part of the world.