September 18 & 21, 2015 Please take out your 3-Ring Binder and something with which to write

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Homework Read p & p p. 393 #3 & p. 402 #3 Study for Latin America Map Quiz Textbooks Next Class? No

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Finish Marco Polo Video Run Time 45:45 Questions Handout Part of Unit 1.3 Homework Packet /videos/marco-polo-full-episode

Period 2 ONLY Why Do We Review the Quiz? Learn from your mistakes Improve for the next quiz Catch any mistakes made by Coach Kenney “The only real failure in life is the failure to learn from your mistakes”

Exploration Map Activity Handout Part of Unit 1.3 Homework Packet You may work with a partner p. 366 & 367

Observe This Write down as many observations as you can about the map Try to connect what you see with what you already know or have read about

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I. Portugal Convinced the best water route to Asia is going SOUTH around Africa. 1) Bartolomeu Dias – First European to successfully round the Cape of Good Hope.

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I. Portugal (cont.) 2) Vasco da Gama – Rounded Africa and continued on to India. First European to successfully sail to Asia and back.

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I. Portugal (cont.) 3) Pedro Cabral – 1500 Sailed for India but drifted west of da Gama’s route. Landed on present-day Brazil. Claimed the land for Portugal.

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II. Spain Sold on the idea that the short cut to Asia was going WEST to get east. 1) Christopher Columbus – 1492 Sailed west and landed in the Bahamas; thought he was near India and China.

II. Spain (cont.) Columbus would make 3 more trips. Explored the entire Caribbean looking for a path to Asia. Established the first European colony in the Americas on Hispaniola.

A Different View of Christopher Columbus Reading Handout (p. 1-3) Excerpts from A People’s History of the United States by Howard Zinn Questions Handout (p. 4) – Part of Unit 1.3 Homework Packet

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Homework Read p & p p. 393 #3 & p. 402 #3 Study for Latin America Map Quiz Textbooks Next Class? No