What are the consequences of exploration?
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Effect: Conquistadors attacked Native American cultures and claimed lands for their country. *Cause: European explorers brought many diseases with them. Effect: Hundreds of thousands of Native Americans died
If it is true that a creative society must explore, it is also true that the same society must consider the consequences of its exploration.
One could argue from history that exploration has led to the subjugation or decimation of cultures, and that is undoubtedly true. Historians have documented the often bad effects of culture contacts: there is no whitewashing the history of Cortez and the Aztecs, Pizarro and the Incas, or the eventual effects of exploration on the American Indians, to mention only the effect of European exploration on the Americas. But surely exploration and discovery do not have to equate with conquest.