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Products from Asia, such as spices, were of rare variety in Europe and sold for high prices. European nations lacked the ability to reach Asia mostly because the Ottoman Empire was blocking the way and the cape of Africa wasn't very easy to pass, thus, Europeans needed to find a different way. Unreal passages in the New World like the Northwest Passage and the Northeast Passage were said to lead to Asia and the West Indies.

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