In one to three sentences, describe some of the possible rewards for the voyages that the Portuguese made during this time.

Portugal, together with other neighboring countries, was part of the early European exploration wherein a lot of new lands (island, countries, etc) were discovered. They were able to held captive a mass amount of land and different rule.

During the early times, European countries did conquer many of the Eastern territories. Among these countries is Portugal who had great fraction of those conquered territories. They were able to widen the scope of their governance and were able to trade most of their products to other countries, especially to those they have conquered.