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Kyle Roerick 10/25/2002 Mod-Western Civ. Period C The European Age of Exploration was governed by three major factors; faith, fate, and fortune. Faith refers to how the presence of religion facilitated Europe in their years of exploration. Fate refers to how the geographic locality effected European exploration. And fortune refers to how the search for treasures impacted European exploration. These factors all played a significant role in the shaping, forming, and molding of the European Age of Exploration. Collectively the faith in European exploration was focused and directed to the teachings of the Catholic Church. The main idea of the spread of Catholicism and the word of God around the globe, especially to the New World, attributed to the already tenacious character of the exploration hungry Europeans. The sixteenth century was also a time of persecution and discrimination against religions other than Catholicism. Some European peoples simply left Europe to explore the world to escape...

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