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Portugal had a substantial role during the age of exploration, due to the sucess of Cristovão Colombo, the explorer that could managed to create one of the most lucrative trade routes by that time, linking Europe to Asia, and also discovered one of the richest deposit of gold in the age of exploration, the Brazilian islands of Fernando de Noronha, that is known for its beauty and natural resources such as gold, silver and Pau Brasil, a tree used to make red pigment for cloths that only the noble class had access by that time
The worst provision of the Navigation acts is legislation, trade, with the colonies was to be managed only in English or colonial ships. Itemize products such as sugar, tobacco, and indigo were to be shipped only within the empire. Trade destined for nations outside the empire had to go first to England. The worst result of Navigation acts was the stifling of colonial manufacturing and increased resentment against the mother country.
The colonies had no representation in laws being enforced on them, causing heavy resentment and eventually the American Revelution.
