In the past, exploration often ended with the occupation.
Starting from the spirit of exploration and exploitation of passion, then the human search, discover, conquer, and then create a new civilization in a land that had never known.
Various sea exploration expeditions, could end up with success stories. But not a few who later ended tragically due to various reasons, such as: sea battle, fight with pirates, crew uprising, which led to a ship then sank. It could be, as well as the crew was unable to face the storm and then sank into the waves.
The success stories of sea travel, which include the discovery of new continents or the hegemony of a culture, to the creation of a marriage or acculturation and language as we know up to now, in addition to heritage in the form of ancient buildings, sites, artifacts and more.
History records how the glory of the nation's fleet of Portugal and Spain that look mighty as a maritime country, who ruled the world in the 16th century until the 17th century.
But then hegemony was replaced by the emergence of fleets United Kingdom, the Netherlands, and France in the 17th century until the 19th century, and the US naval fleet afterwards. And all marine expedition when, relying on high-masted sailing ship!
