Why was finding a Northwest Passage so important to the Europeans?

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Martin Ellison asked Oct 2, 2022

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Why was finding a Northwest Passage
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So that they could go through to Asia

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So they could go through to Asia. They didn't know how far the Americas were from Asia.

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