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What fuelled the great explorations of Spain and Portugal weren't because they liked doing it, it was because silk and spices were super expensive to be traded along the Silk Road, past Arab states that imposed hefty taxes, and had to be shipped all the way across the Mediterranean Sea, where ports made fortunes by levying even more on the goods.

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