Jamestown is your answer to this question
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Motives for Exploration For early explorers, one of the main motives for exploration was the desire to find new trade routes to Asia. By the 1400s, merchants and crusaders had brought many goods to Europe from Africa, the Middle East, and Asia. Demand for these goods increased the desire for trade.
One characteristic of an origin story is a supreme being. a being that will trigger the events that create the phenomenon.