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Name: ____________________________ Date: October 20

Unit Title: Age of Exploration, Enlightenment, and the Age of Revolutions Period:____

New Table of Contents

Unit 3: The Age of Exploration, The Enlightenment, and the Age of

Revolutions

Unit Questions

Should the period called, “The Age of Exploration” really be called the “Age of Imperialism”?

How did the Enlightenment inspire revolution?

Unit Questions

What was the most important contribution of the Enlightenment and why?

Which revolution was the most revolutionary?

Primary Source Overview● Primary Sources = written in the past

○ ex. Columbus’s journal, Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation, Twelve Tables, Rule of St. Benedict

○ pictures count!!! (The Mona Lisa)● Secondary Sources = written about the past

○ ex. textbook, an article, non-fiction book

Annotated Bibliography

1) Easy Bib- link on my website! (MLA!)2) Write a short paragraph for each source

a) 2-3 sentence summary on the sourceb) 2-3 sentences on why this source was helpful

3) TYPED! Title: Annotated Bibliography4) I expect AT LEAST four sources5) DUE: October 31 (HALLOWEEN)

Sample EntryBeck, Roger B. Modern World History: Patterns of Interaction. Orlando, FL.: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Pub., 2012. Print.

The textbook discussed the events leading up to World War II. Specifically, this text provided information on the Treaty of Versailles from World War I and the rise of Hitler. This source was very helpful in providing a chronology of events. It also was helpful in providing images. Finally, it was also helpful in identifying the main ideas that I will use in my paper.

Chinese Exploration

● under the rule of Yonglo○ moved capital to Beijing○ China started

exploration○ launched seven

voyages

Ming Dynasty (1368-1644)

*Zheng He

● Chinese and Muslim admiral● led all seven voyages from 1405 to 1433

○ ranged from Southeast Asia to Africa ○ with 40 to 300 ships per journey

*Zheng He

● Significance:○ visited 37 countries ○ extending Chinese

influence and establishing trade and tribute territories

As we go through the different explorers and divisions of territories, copy them onto your blank map. We will be adding to this ALL WEEK!

Exploration Map

Why didn’t the Chinese discover America?● superior ships in size and technology

Qing Dynasty

● rule under Kangxi○ reduced government expenses○ increased restrictions on foreign trade○ traditional culture and emphasis on Confucianism

Gavin Menzies

● submarine commander (not a historian)

● in 2002, he claimed Zheng He discovered America BEFORE Columbus

Evidence ChartFor Chinese Discovery of Americas

Against Chinese Discovery of Americas

http://www.history.com/topics/exploration/exploration-of-north-america/videos/did-the-chinese-discover-america

http://www.pbslearningmedia.org/resource/vtl07.la.rv.text.zhengi/the-voyage-of-zheng-he-i/

Article

1) read the article2) add to your chart about evidence

For Chinese Discovery of Americas

Primary or Secondary Source? Why?

Against Chinese Discovery of Americas

Primary or Secondary Source? Why?

In your notes... (yes, complete sentences!!)Title: Early European Exploration1. If you could explore one place on earth, where would you go

and why?2. Imagine that you are living 1400s with no planes or

automobiles for transportation. Would you be willing to explore that same place (question 1) knowing you’d have to travel by boat and animal?

3. What one person that is living now would you take with you on your explorations? Why?

Early European Exploration

● motivation for exploration○ God = the spread Christianity through missionizing○ Gold = desire for wealth and to establish trade

routes to obtain spices○ Glory = competition between monarchs to establish

territorial claims abroad

*“God, Gold, and Glory”

Scandinavia

● Leif Eriksson (Viking)○ around 1000 CE: first

European settlement in Greenland

○ sailed to Vinland (northeastern coast of Canada)

Portugal

● Prince Henry○ son of the King of

Portugal and avid explorer○ 1419- founded a

navigation school

Portugal

● Bartolomeu Diaz (1488)○ a Portuguese Captain who

sailed around Africa to reach Asia

○ did not reach India due to low food supply

Portugal

● Vasco de Gama (1497)○ explored the East African

coast○ reached Calicut, the

southwest coast of India○ obtained spices such as

pepper and cinnamon○ established a direct sea

route to India

Spain

● Christopher Columbus (1492)○ aimed for Asia but

landed in the Caribbean

● established the encomienda system on Hispaniola (Haiti and Dominican Republic) to mine for gold○ compel the Taino to work in exchange for

“protection”○ rebellions were put down with force○ ended due to smallpox

Spain

● Treaty of Tordesillas: In 1494, Portugal and Spain divided the Western Hemisphere

Spain

● Hernan Cortes- Spanish conquistador ○ 1519, arrived at

Tenochtitlan, capital of the Aztec empire

○ decimated Aztec population through violence and smallpox

Spain

● Francisco Pizarro- Spanish conquistador ○ took Incan capital○ used infighting between

factions to break apart the Incan empire

○ strangled ruler and looted treasure

Spain

● Francisco Vasquez de Coronado (1540)○ searched for gold (didn’t find

much)○ started missionizing process○ Mission System in CA

Spain

● forcibly converted Native Americans and required them to work and live inside the missions

Spain

Language

exploration = action of traveling in or through an unfamiliar area in order to learn about it

imperialism = a policy of extending a country's power and influence through diplomacy or military force

1) Introduction2) Evidence3) Conclusion

How would you characterize Spanish colonization? Imperialism or exploration?