Which 5 major countries went exploring overseas?

Portugal,Spain,France,England,and Sweden/Denmark

Explanation:

In its own era the regime of Catherine the Great was remarkable and inspiring though she’s a woman.  She continued and sustained Peter the Great's reforms of the Russian state, further improving central control over the regions. Her aspiration was to justify and rectify the government of the Russian Empire. One of the most wealthy periods for Russia , Catherine managed a lot of things of internal political reforms, and rewarded two successful wars against the Ottoman Empire and outspread the borders of Russia .  Her accomplishments played a key role in the progress of Russia as a modern state in both political and cultural sense.  Under her reign, she directed the building of the Hermitage Museum .  Catherine founded and establish academies, libraries and corresponded with French Encyclopedists including Voltaire, Diderot, and d’Alembert. She ruled through corruption, scandal, land expansion, and political reforms. When the civil war was winning the victory over the Ottoman Empire, Catherine the Great increased the land expansion which resulted in new colony expanding to the banks of the Black Sea. She even imported amazing hand works in literature, art, and print from the Western European countries. Catherine had thrown Russia as a major world empire, Also; Law codes and Education was merely developed under her regime.