During the years of the Enlightenment Age, new and wounderous advances were being made. Not only on land but explorers were venturing out into the sea. Captain James Cook was one of these men who went on many expeditions around the world.
Between 1720 and 1790 was a period known as the Age of Enlightenment. The Age of Enlightenment was a major influence in history. This period was filled with new ideas, thinkers. Many of which dealt with science and art, but also expedition. Paintings were painted to express feelings of this time of reform and revolution. There were inventors making helpful inventions. The ideas of the time period spread thought Europe like a desease does to a school. Starting in France and going to the United States of America, with the help of explorers.
Expeditions was important in this time frame. Cook was the best known navigator map maker and scientist of the time. Throughout his youth he dreamed of going out to sea and sailing ships. He wanted to do something different and helpful. Before becoming a great navigator and everything else had become to be he work on a ship that brought coal up and down the east coast. From there he became a captain who sailed to many unkknown places and charted them. Cook was the first European to reach and chart the east coast of Australia and the islands of New Zealand, Hawaii and Tahiti. He made a path for many who followed him, and contributed map and charts of the seas he had sailed.
Cook voyaged all over the world. He mapped out where ever he went. His trips to New Zealand, Tahiti and Hawaii were probably his most memorable trips because was the first to go and chat this unknown territory. .