The early goal of Portugal during the Age of Exploration was to look for a naval route going to India. The land routes were blocked by the Ottoman Empire which hindered the trade in the Far East. India was then considered the Portuguese state and it was founded six years after the Portuguese explorers found the route to India.
The question is not complete, here is the complete question followed by the answer;
Aristotle came up with many reasons why statesmen should know all the different types of government. Which of the following is
not
one of Aristotle's reasons?
And the answer is "so that the statesmen can select the government that would maximize their personal power".
Aristotle on statesman that a few people imagine that the capabilities of a statesman, ruler, householder, and master are the same, and that they vary, not in kind, but rather just in the quantity of their subjects. At the point when the legislature is close to home, the ruler is a king; while, as indicated by the standards of the political science, the natives manage and are controlled thus, at that point he is known as a statesman.
A monarchy. The United Kingdom is an example under the rule of Queen Elizabeth