kick off october 15, 2013 please turn in your homework (ch. 15 vocabulary and the chapter review, if...
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Kick OffOctober 15, 2013Please turn in your homework (ch. 15 vocabulary and the Chapter Review, if you didn’t turn it in yesterday)
Analyze the map on page 468, and read the paragraph. Answer questions 1 and 2 in your notebook. (page 73).
Objectives:Understand the foundation upon
which the Age of Exploration was built.
Understand the discoveries made by explorers from Portugal and Spain
Analyze what drove explorers from the rest of Europe
Foundations of ExplorationAge of Exploration driven by search for wealth, fame & glory, spreading faith (Gold, Glory, God)
Technology allowed for explorationAstrolabeCaraval
You play the part!1. Henry the Navigator
(471)2. Bartolomeu Dias
(471)3. Vasco de Gama (472)4. Pedro Cabral (472)5. Christopher
Columbus (473)6. Amerigo Vespucci
(474)7. Vasco Nunez de
Balboa (474)8. Ferdinand Magellan
(474)9. John Cabot (474)10.Sir Francis Drake
(474)11.Henry Hudson (474)12.Jacques Cartier
(475)13.Giovanni da
Verazzano (475)
Answer the following questions about your character…- Where are you from?- What were you trying to do?- Were you successful? If not, why?
- Is there anything unique about your journey?
Meet and greet the explorers!1. Henry the Navigator
(471)2. Bartolomeu Dias
(471)3. Vasco de Gama
(472)4. Pedro Cabral (472)5. Christopher
Columbus (473)6. Amerigo Vespucci
(474)7. Vasco Nunez de
Balboa (474)8. Ferdinand Magellan
(474)9. John Cabot (474)10.Sir Francis Drake
(474)11.Henry Hudson (474)12.Jacques Cartier
(475)13.Giovanni da
Verazzano (475)
America• How the Spanish
created an empire in the Americas:• Introduced the encomienda system • conquered Aztec and Inca empires• viceroys governed land
• Viceroy: officials who ruled Spain’s American empire.
Encomienda System• Encomienda System:
a Spanish colonial system in which colonists were given land and Native Americans slaves in exchange for teaching the Natives Christianity.
• It was created in order to weaken the Aztec and Incan Empires.
The Portuguese in BrazilTreaty of
Tordesillas: signed in 1494 between Spain and Portugal. Gave land west of imaginary longitude line to Spanish, east to Portuguese
French and DutchFrench settled in Canada
(New France)Animal resources (fish,
furs)Did not enslave natives
Dutch founded New Netherlands in northeastFounded New Amsterdam
(later renamed New York)More focused on colonies
elsewhere (more $$$)
English ColoniesFounded Jamestown in 1607
Pilgrims came in 1620s, fleeing religious persecution
War with French in 1754Called French and Indian WarFrench gave up Canada and
territory east of the Mississippi to British
War costly to British, caused them to increase taxes on colonists, led to resentment, eventually revolution