Why did Europeans invade Africa for the first time?

/kloc-In the 1980s of 0/5, the Portuguese opened up new sea routes and established many colonial strongholds and fortresses along the coast of Africa as navigation relay stations to the east.

At this time, Columbus had not discovered America (1990s), and the East was ruled by Russia and Turkey, and backward Africa became the first target of their aggression.

BornToLoveTing Carthage is a colony of Phoenicians, and the only areas in Phoenicia today are Syria and Lebanon, not counting Europe.

The Greeks did emigrate overseas in the city-state era, and their migration direction was Asia, Asia, Europe, Italy and the south bank of the Black Sea, not Africa, and their colonial nature was different from that of modern Europe.