One of the major reasons for exploration was of course, money.
Many people who had not been properly educated in common skills would take up exploration as a trade as it would supply them with the basic necessities to live and it could also prove very profitable and exhilarating in the long run.
Another large reason for desiring expansion was for the fame. Take Christopher Columbus for example, most everyone in the modern world knows the mans name and what he did. People love to be remembered and to have something that will live on as a part of them, even once they are dead. This could be the land that they discovered.
As peculiar as it sounds, many people would explore simply for the sake of being able to call themselves an explorer. Often times what would happen, men would leave home thinking "oh I'll just go discover a few countries and come back a rich man". Those same men usually wound up dead or marooned somewhere, and no one would ever know.
Many people who had not been properly educated in common skills would take up exploration as a trade as it would supply them with the basic necessities to live and it could also prove very profitable and exhilarating in the long run.
Another large reason for desiring expansion was for the fame. Take Christopher Columbus for example, most everyone in the modern world knows the mans name and what he did. People love to be remembered and to have something that will live on as a part of them, even once they are dead. This could be the land that they discovered.
As peculiar as it sounds, many people would explore simply for the sake of being able to call themselves an explorer. Often times what would happen, men would leave home thinking "oh I'll just go discover a few countries and come back a rich man". Those same men usually wound up dead or marooned somewhere, and no one would ever know.