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Answer:When I was, oh, <em>around</em> eight years old, I thought it would be fun to learn to play the piano. My parents agreed to purchase a piano. They told me that I would be required to practice one hour a day, <em>due to the fact that </em>piano lessons were expensive. At first, I practiced piano for two hours each day, <em>with the result that</em> I progressed very rapidly. Every day for two years I raced home <em>when </em>school was done and practiced the piano with great enthusiasm. Then one day, something happened. I decided I liked baseball better than the piano. Though I can play the piano rather well <em>at the present time</em>, I do not practice as long nor as diligently as I once did.
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The desire for trade with Asia encouraged exploration of the Americas because in order to do so they had to search for a trade route. While doing so they landed in the Americas which was like unclaimed land to them so they explored it in order to gain it as their territory. The more land you had control over the more powerful the country was.
