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Why did Portugal and Spain located all water routes to the east in the 15th c?

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Portugal, Spain, France, and England newly emerged as nation-states with the means to finance long overseas voyages now possible through innovations in navigation. They searched for a water route to the East because war with the Ottoman Empire interrupted the profitable overland trade routes with the Orient.

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