Reminders: Unit: Age of Exploration Focus Activity: MYP Unit Question: Why do people explore? What are the consequences? Focus Question: What were the effects of Spanish exploration? Focus Activity: Turn to page 13 Homework: Decoding the Dutch (pg. 22) due Monday Work on LTA! Tuesday, October 3rd, 2019 Happy National Boyfriend Day! Reminders: LTA due Tuesday, 10/8
Causes of Exploration 1. Gold: Become wealthy
Causes of Exploration 2. Glory: Become famous by discovering/claiming lands and finding a Northwest Passage to Asia
3. God: Spread Christianity to Native Americans Causes of Exploration 3. God: Spread Christianity to Native Americans
Ferdinand Magellan- first to circumnavigate the globe
Vasco Nunez de Balboa
Conquistador: A Spanish conqueror
Aztec Religious Rituals…
Hernan Cortes conquers the Aztecs
Francisco Pizarro- over 24 TONS of gold and silver
Exit Card Who had the better approach to exploration? Magellan/Balboa OR Cortez/Pizarro? Explain.