Why do you think other european nations lagged behind portugal in the race for overseas exploration?

Answer;

-They were recovering from a series of disasters during the previous century. They also had sailing school.

Explanation;

-Some European nations lagged behind Portugal in overseas exploration because they did not concentrate enough funds to explorers. Portugal delegated explorers and gave them proper equipment and funding to go and look for new opportunities.

-The Portuguese navy had very powerful ships, carracks and caravels, as well as other types of ships. They also possessed a wide variety of naval instruments, such as astrolabes, compasses, and a number of maps. That, and the fact that we were always a seafaring nation, led to Portugal being a pioneer in the discovery of the world.

alliances in ww1 were different from ww2 because the entente in ww1 made up of serbia,russia,france,britan,japan and italy later america  and all allied in a sort of balance of power and too keep germany,austria-hungary,and the ottomans down. russia allied the serbians in order to exert its influence in the balkans while france allied the russians because france was still in dismay and insulted after the defeat to the germans during the unification of germany and britian allied the belgians after the germans invasion of belgium.in ww2 the alliances were in a preemptive attempt to deter any further wars into happening while germany and italy allied since they were insulted and humiliated after the previous war while also sharing a similar ideology of facsim along with japan which all 3 had a want for world domination and agreed to assist one another in the endevours 

explanation:

the founding fathers did not think women were asmportant as mern were and men could do more and better things then women