Mercantalism helped push exploration during the age of exploration to find more profitable trade routes to the east. Leading this exploration was Portugal which finally after many years of trying reached India with the Vasco de Gamma expedition. One of Vasco de Gammas expeditions also discovered Brazil.
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weak national government comprising a one-house legislature.
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The Congress had the power to declare war, sign treaties, and settle disputes between states, though it could not tax its states or regulate trade.
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.