Importance Of Motivation For European Exploration

As the European world is in descending into general peril during the 15th and 16th centuries, a multitude of precarious variables are bearing havoc onto the region, providing inordinate reasons and motivations for the Europeans to venture westward into a new world. Among certain motivations for European exploration include: a quest for a homogenously Christian-European region, a sheer onslaught of pandemonium brought by the bubonic pandemic of the 1500’s, and the search for new spice trade routes as a result of the previous routes being sequestered by the Ottomans. Economic motivations with hopes of finding potential riches were, of course, the greatest motivation for the Europeans to venture outward. While the other motivations, such as the plague and the quest for new spice routes, were important issues and served as defining reasons for the Europeans to explore, the evidence that Europeans were mostly motivated by the potential to find riches can be purported in many ways. …show more content…
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Without doubt, the plague motivated Europeans to find new and better living conditions than the current death-ridden society; however, the plague also displayed economic implications in the feudal society of 15th century Europe, as it completely had a leveling effect on the society resulting in vast socioeconomic changes. In the essence of a feudal society, the nobility maintains the holdings of the peasants in exchange of labor for basic