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They hoped to establish trade with China, Japan, and the Indies without having to go throught middlemen in west Asia and the Middle East.

The motive of conquering, plundering, and exploiting the lands that these expeditions discovered arose only after they were discovered, that is, after the expeditions and not before then.

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