Why Is American Exploration Important

Although the reformation was important to the printing presses success, I believe that exploration was more important. For example, Christopher Columbus would have never discovered the Americas if he had not explored the ocean. The creation and use of the printing press was important to the maps success. The printing press allowed for maps to be mass produced. These maps were then distributed all over Europe. New explorers saw and bought the maps and then went exploring and found new lands. They would then add the information that they discovered to revise and reprint a new map. Exploration also helped the spread of geological knowledge that might not have been spread otherwise. If explorers continued to only explore Europe and Africa they