1. The Age of Exploration
What factors led people to risk everything for the sake of exploration?

2. Reasons for Exploration!
GOLD!
European Powers sought items that had monetary value…
Precious metals
Foods, spices, herbals,
Fragrances, perfumes
Land for expansion

3. A Second Reason for Exploration
What is it that people seek-even today?
Why do people push themselves in sports, the sciences, business?

4. Glory! Personal Glory-self aggrandizement Personal fame and prestige
Glory for One’s Country/Monarch
Glory associated with being first
Glory/Praise from great accomplishments
Glory in seeking upward mobility

5. God Spreading the CHRISTIAN FAITH
Converting non-believers to the faith
Relying on God for divine intervention

6. What Was the role of the Catholic Church in exploration?
It was absolutely instrumental in promoting exploration!

7. Summation So Why Have People Explored? What is it people have sought?
Why are people willing to risk everything?

8. It is in our nature to be explorers?
What are the dangers that exist if we should choose to explore new realms?
Is exploration worth the inevitable human costs?
Time
Money
Effort
Lives
Sacrifice

9. What Areas Remain Unexplored?
What areas would seem ripe for exploration? Why?
Space?
Undersea?
Which sciences?
The Arts?

10. Undersea – Deep Sea

11. The Past… What is to be gained?

12. The Arts…

13. Where will you explore? or
Will you be content to be bored?

14. So Why Explore? Can it all be boiled down to another “G’ word?
G_ _ _ D

15. Why Not Explore?
What is it that holds you back?

16. The unexplored life is not…
How would you complete the statement?
You will have an opportunities to do exploring for yourself… What is it that interests you?
Sometimes it takes great courage to risk being
different or to go out on that limb…alone
Do you let your fears prevent you from achieving
greatness or in finding fulfillment?

17. The Road Not Taken by Robert Frost
The last line of his poem…
I took the road less traveled by and it has made all the difference…
What does that mean?
Have you ever taken the road less traveled?

18. So what is it about exploration that has motivated humans?
Why do some people hear “the call” while others seem deaf to it?
Again, I ask…
What is it that holds you back?