The answer would be Collective Learning. The reason is, if a group of people fail in something they learn from those mistakes so they improve upon them, in doing so they share this knowledge with new generations. Each generation makes improvements on this knowledge.
<span>Both the Arab and Mongol Empires has periods of intellectual expansion. but the Arab Empire was created due to the rise of Islam and the Mongol empire was created due to the Mongols tearing away from Mongolia.</span>
Either the Crusades or Polo's journeys.
The Puritans believed that their purpose was to start a new life in America(their mission).
Edmund Hillary
Edmund Hillary and Sherpa mountaineer Tenzing Norgay became the first climbers confirmed to have reached the summit of Mount Everest.