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Why were the Portuguese venturing into the Atlantic ocean

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To discover new land and settlements, for example, they discovered many archipelagos like the Azores
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They originally wanted to find another pathway to Asia, which is why Native Americans today are called Native Indians-Colombus thought he was in India.
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