Why did europeans seek a sea route to asia in the late 1400?

They wanted to bypass existing routes that were controlled by foreign powers so, they could gain direct access to spiced and other goods of Asia.

The case was a u.s. supreme court decision that defined the scope of the u.s. congress's legislative power and how it relates to the powers of american state legislatures. the dispute in mcculloch involved the legality of the national bank and a tax that the state of maryland imposed on it.

Both countries had to aprove annexation.