Ch. 17: The Age of Exploration

Your Task…

Read the Place & Time: The Age of Exploration 1500-1800, pg. 382-383.

Analyzing Historical Documents: What different motivations affected European explorers of this time?

Interactive Whiteboard Activities:

Analyzing Primary Sources: The Age of Exploration 1500-1800

Your Task…

Interactive Whiteboard Activities:

Video: Columbus’s Voyage

Map: European Voyages of Discovery, 1500-1800 What region did the Portuguese first explore?

How did the region of the Americas explored by Spain differ from that region explored by France?

Whiteboard Activity: The Treaty of Tordesillas (1494)

Chart: European Explorers

Caravel- small, fast, maneuverable ship that had a large cargo hold and usually three masts with lateen sails

Conquistador- a leader in the Spanish conquest of the Americas

Colony- settlement of people living in a new territory, linked with the parent country by trade and direct gov’t control

Your Task…

Read Lesson 17.1: European Exploration and Expansion (pg. 384-389). Complete the following chart.

Lesson 17.1: European Exploration and Expansion

Motives and Means A Race for the Riches The Spanish Empire European Rivals

What were the

motivations behind

European exploration

of distant lands?

How were Spain and

Portugal able to take

the lead in

discovering new

lands?

What were the results

of Spanish and

Portuguese conquests

in the Americas?

Which other

European countries

expired and settled in

the Americas?

Portuguese Explorers Conquest of the Aztec

Spanish Explorers Where were the

earliest settlements

of the Dutch, French,

and English in the

Americas?

What does the phrase

“Gold, Glory, and

God” mean?

New Lands to Explore Conquest of the Inca

How were the first

explorations of Spain

and Portugal similar

and different?

How were the

conquests of the

Aztec and the Inca

similar and different?

Your Task…

Discuss the following questions in your groups:

What were the short-term consequences of the Spanish conquests in the Americas?

What were the long-term consequences of European exploration of the Americas?

Bell Work…

Copy and answer the following questions into your notebooks:

What were the short-term consequences of the Spanish conquests in the Americas?

What were the long-term consequences of European exploration of the Americas?

Your Task…

Interactive Whiteboard Activities:

Video: Columbus’s Arrival

Chart: Age of Exploration Economic Concepts

Joint-Stock Company- business where stocks are bought and owned by shareholders

Mercantilism- set of principles that dominated economic thought in the seventeenth century; it held that the prosperity of a nation depended on a large supply of gold and silver

Subsidies- payments made to support enterprises a gov’t thinks are beneficial

Basic Principles of Mercantilism

A nation’s strength depends on its wealth as measured in gold and

silver

Only a fixed amount of wealth exists in the world, and nations have to

compete for their share of that wealth

A favorable balance of trade is an important step in gaining wealth

Countries should seek to limit imports and maximize exports

A country should have its own source for raw materials and precious

metals to avoid dependence on others

Colonies exist only as a way for the mother country to make profit

A country’s colonies should not trade with any other countries

The Columbian Exchange1. Major goal of European exploration was to gain wealth

2. European nations sought to increase their wealth by exploiting sources of precious metals and raw materials in their colonies

3. Columbian Exchange- exchange of plants and animals between Europe and the Americas

4. Colonization and trade drove the exchange

5. Plantation- large agricultural estate

6. Much of what the colonists grew and raised was exported to Europe

7. Indigenous peoples of Mexico and Central/South America were devastated by smallpox, measles, and typhus

The Atlantic Slave Trade

1. European expansion led to an increase in the slave trade

2. European diseases quickly devastated the Native American populations in the Americas which resulted in a shortage of labor

3. As a result, Europeans enslaved people from Africa

4. Triangular Trade functioned: European merchant ships carried European manufactured goods to Africa where they were traded for enslaved people; enslaved Africans were then sent to the Americas and sold

5. Middle Passage- the forced voyage of enslaved Africans across the Atlantic; Ocean to the Americas

Your Task…

Interactive Whiteboard Activities:

Activity: The Columbian Exchange

Whiteboard Activity: Triangular Trade

Timeline: From Africa’s Shores to America’s Plantations

Your Assignment…

Complete Primary Sources: The Conquest of Mexico, pg. 400-401.

Be sure to write in complete sentences and cite text when necessary.

Bell Work…

Copy and answer the following question into your notebook:

Which economic theory was put into practice during the age of exploration? How does it work?

Your Assignment…

Complete the EdPuzzle Video Quizzes: The Columbian Exchange and The Atlantic Slave Trade.

Bell Work…

Copy and answer the following questions into your notebook:

How did the Columbian Exchange affect the Americas and Europe?

How did European expansion affect Africa and the slave trade?

Peninsulare- person born on the Iberian Peninsula, who resided in Latin America temporarily for political and economic gain and then returned to Europe

Creole- person of European descent born in Latin America and living there permanently

Mestizo- person of mixed European and Native American descent

Mulatto- person of mixed African and European descent

Encomienda- system of labor the Spanish used Queen Isabella, to use Native Americans as laborers

Mita- labor system that they Spanish administrators in Peru used to draft indigenous people to work

Your Task…

In partners or groups of 3, complete the 17.3 Guided Reading: Colonial Latin America.

Your Assignment…

Complete the Ch. 17 worksheet packet.