Is exploration a 'good' thing?

Q: Is exploration a 'good' thing?
A: Exploration can be a very good thing, or a very bad thing. It is defined as, “an act or instance of exploring or investigating; examination,” (http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/exploration). This basically means that exploration is like investigating something or someone. Exploration is also defined as, “the investigation of unknown regions,” (http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/exploration). This definition is saying that exploration is investigating unknown parts of the world. Exploration has both an inner meaning and an outer meaning. It is also defined in Merriam Webster Dictionary as, “to investigate, study, or analyze: look in to, to become familiar with by testing or experimenting,” and “to travel over (new territory) for adventure or discovery.” This is saying that exploration has both an inner meaning and an outer meaning to it. The Medici was able to prove that taking a chance with new things has its rewards, but there are also people who have tried and failed. Exploration is a very important part of any culture or civilization that wants to continue to thrive in the future.
The Medici family came from the Mugello Region, which is North of Florence, in 1230. The Medici family gained power by other elite families. They had strategic marriages, partnerships, and employment. This helped the Medici family become the center of the social network. They also had banking relationships with other elite families and people. The Medici family was very powerful; however, they were not as powerful as other elite families such as the Albizzi family or the Strozzi family. Giovani di’ Medici was the person who started the Medici family bank. He was then able to quickly become one of the richest men in Florence. He did not hold any political power; he only held the power the people gave him. The Medici family introduced a proportional taxing system and the family was able to gain popularity. Giovani’s son, Cosimo the Elder, later took over the Medici family bank and the Medici family became heads of state of the Florence Republic. All of this happened to the Medici family in 1434. This was also around the time that the Medici family was helping a pirate become a pope and putting their trust in a strange, unusual, intellectual architect. The pirate that they sponsored became Pope John the twenty-third. The strange, unusual, intellectual architect became one of the most famous architects in Europe. The architect was being socially exiled because of his odd drawings and strange way of thinking. He was not given a chance until the Medici family found him and asked him to build a new cathedral with a design that no one had seen before. The building style he used had not been used for over a thousand years. If the Medici family had not tried to explore new possibilities, than they would have never achieved the popularity and greatness that the family had.
Exploration can also be looking inside yourself to find who you truly are. Exploration is also physically investigating a place where you have never been or have not been for a while. Exploration to a specific place would be like Christopher Columbus discovering the Americas. He was able to explore new land and became a part of history. Most exploration is a positive thing, though bad things can come from good exploration. When exploring in America, the white men wanted all of the Indians dead and off of the land. The exploration was positive for America as a whole, but extremely bad for the Indians that were killed and kicked off of their own land. Exploration can be positive or negative and inner or outer, but it has, no doubt, shaped civilization.