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If I can remember, it was to find more spices and try to get to India by sailing in the other direction (west).
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Battle of Hampton Roads
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Battle of the Monitor and Merrimack, also called Battle of Hampton Roads, (March 9, 1862), in the American Civil War, naval engagement at Hampton Roads, Virginia, a harbour at the mouth of the James River, notable as history's first duel between ironclad warships and the beginning of a new era of naval warfare.
They were changed from a more conseritive way of thinking to a more liberal way of thinking since they had to account for all the new types of cultures and races that were now part of their empire