European Exploration
European Exploration During the 15th and 16th centuries around the world, the lure of economic opportunity, heroism, and adventure tempted explorers from Europe to travel hundreds of miles to explore the worlds that existed outside their own. The first European explorer to come to the Americas was Christopher Columbus but he landed here only by mistake. ... These beginnings were do to European explorations during the late 14th centuries. ... Another leading factor to the exploration of the Europeans was the fact that people had become curious again instead of just living for god. ... This is perhaps the whole reason behind European exploration.