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To: TigerPaw who wrote (212980)12/9/2004 1:32:16 AM
From: tejek  Respond to of 1574890
 
If oil was not the issue, what was?

Trade routes to Asia.


I don't think so. The Suez Canal was opened in the last half of the 19th century. That was the major trade route to Asia from Europe.