Exploration
Why Explore?
The three G's
Glory
Gold
God
Those were the three main factors that led people to set sail without little to no knowledge of where they were going.
Why not explore more?
One of the main resons they didn't explore more was because of all the dangers of sailing, And the fear of unkown.
People also believed the further south you travel you would boil.
Laslty there was also a myth that you could fall of the edge of the world (People at the time believed the world was flat.)
There was a myth that sea monsters existed.
Pros and Cons
Pros
Cons
As I mentioned before the three G's were a massive factor to sailors and the prestige you would get for being the first to discover new land would be huge.
Trade was one of the biggest factors for people to explore since there were alot of goods that could not be found in europe.
Religion was also a factor since most christians believed in only their god and wanted to spread their religion.
Empire building/Colonization
This played a mojor role since most europeans thought they were better than the countries they conquered and wanted to colonize them.
They wanted to exploit other countries for their natural resources
They also wanted to build empires
The fear of the unkown played a part since they didnt have all the knowledge of where they were going and would'nt know how lnog they would be gone for.