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Licemer1 [7]
2 years ago
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How did the nature of European exploration change by the seventeenth century?

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zalisa [80]2 years ago
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The main way in which the nature of European exploration changed by the seventeenth century was that by this time, the major European powers such as Spain and Portugal had claimed large amounts of territory in the New World, and already exporting large amounts of natural resources back to their homeland. 
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