When you think of rocket into space? There are several ways to explore the unknown, just like there are several different reasons to do it!
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Columbus'. At first, Europeans thought of the Americas as little more than a chunk of land blocking their way to the Indies. It didn't take long for them to realise that the Americas had great resources of its own.
Christopher Columbus
Motives for Exploration - Wealth and Religion 3d6b11
The motives for Spanish, French and spread Christianity. also wanted to spread Christianity and find a new route by water to the East through North America. The English were motivated by a desire to colonize as much of the Americas as possinble - to add to the ever-increasing British Empire.
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- While Columbus is often mistakenly credited as being the first European to lay eyes on North America, the Vikings got there more than 400 years before him.
- A Spanish explorer happened upon Florida while searching for the "Fountain of Youth".
- Eurpoean explorers brought more than just boats with them to the new world. They were also carrying the Smallpox disease (a deadly relative of Chicken Pox), which killed millions of native people.
Viking Boat
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