1. Wed, Aug. 30 Please sit in any group Need your composition book today!
Grab a handout and cut along the outer edges.
Then, glue the chapter 1 cover page on page 1. 1

2. Objectives The Age of Exploration Did you remember?
Class Tools (15 min)
Set Up Notebook
Books
Learner Profile Game (20 min)
Age of Exploration (15 min)
Causes and Effects
Columbus (35 min)
Columbian Exchange
Video
Doc Analysis
Skill: Detect bias and evaluate credibility in source materials.

3. TEXTBOOKS Check out the textbook from the library today
Huge, heavy book 
Keep at home
At school, we can use the electronic version

4. NOTEBOOKS Include the date every day
Draw one, colored line under each day to separate
Composition Book
Keeps notes in one place, in order of the chapters
Keep in classroom
Things included:
Daily bellringers with date
Content notes, maps, charts
Skills practice
EOC terms reviews

5. Was the contact of the Old and New Worlds more positive or negative?

6. Age of Exploration Causes and Effects Notebook Page 4
Historical Context:
Until about 1450, Europe was mostly cut off and isolated from the Silk Roads. Without access to the wealth, trade goods, technologies, and ideas that travelled from China, India, the Middle East, and North Africa, Europeans lived in the “Dark Ages.” This meant that the European economy was based on agriculture alone (Manor System), European politics were decentralized (Feudalism), and life was poor and hard for the majority of people. The only cultural unity and comfort provided to Europeans came from the Catholic Church, which established common religious laws and gave people hope in salvation.
A few events began to change the direction of European history and eventually allow Europeans to dominate global trade. The first was the Black Death, or the Plague, which came to Europe through trade routes in While at first this caused an obsession with death (gothic culture) and was devastating to the European population, in the long-term this disease actually allowed survivors a better standard of living. Wages and salaries rose as survivors had less competition for jobs. The next major turning point was the Fall of Constantinople (or the Fall of the Byzantine Empire) in 1453, when the Ottoman Empire (Islamic) invaded. While at first this represented a huge defeat for Christianity and blocked off Europe from any access it had to the Silk Roads, in the long-term it would force Europeans to find wealth somewhere else.
Up until 1453 only the city-states of the Italian Peninsula had any access to the wealth and trade of the Silk Roads. After 1453 it would be up to innovative and risk-taking adventurers to bring Europe out of the Dark Ages and into a Golden Age (the Renaissance). The series of voyages and expeditions made by Europeans to link Europe to the global trade and wealth of the east would be known as The Age of Exploration.
Causes and Effects

7. What motivates you to do something challenging?
Think about it
What motivates you to do something challenging?

8. What caused Europeans to expand their power into the Americas?
CAUSES
What caused Europeans to expand their power into the Americas?

9. What caused Europeans to expand their power into the Americas?
CONTEXT
What caused Europeans to expand their power into the Americas?
Marco Polo had established trade with the Far East, bringing back silk, gunpowder and spices
Crusades opened European eyes
Some nations, like Italy, grew rich
Other European nations grew jealous
The Ottoman Empire cut Italy off from overland trade
New sea routes needed to be found since overland travel was now impossible

10. EXPLORERS Looking for the…
CAUSES
EXPLORERS Looking for the…
NorthWest
Passage

11. What were the causes of European exploration?
GOLD:
- Northwest Passage
- Desire for Wealth/Trade
- Initially looking for trade routes east
GLORY:
- National Competition among different
European nations
3. GOD:
- Spread Christianity

12. Marco Polo’s Eastern Great Sea
Option 1
Option 2
Option 3
The Western Great Sea
Marco Polo’s Eastern Great Sea

13. Chooses Option 3 Christopher Columbus
Columbus plans to sail west from Europe to India.
He thinks the sea east of India is the same as the one west of Europe.
It works like Pac-man, you go off one side and come out the other.

14. Think about the big question: More positive or negative?
(Columbus vs. History 5 min)

15. What happened once Europeans discovered the Americas?
EFFECTS
What happened once Europeans discovered the Americas?

16. 1. Destruction of Native Peoples Natives had No Immunity
EFFECTS
1. Destruction of Native Peoples
Natives had No Immunity
Steel Weapons
4. Missionaries
2. Slavery Started
3. More Knowledge
Why Africans??

17. EFFECTS
5. Colonies
6. Columbian Exchange

18. Investigate
Investigator: Choose 5 top words
Underline the five most important words from today’s notes. Be prepared to explain why you chose them.

19. “Before 1492, there were no tomatoes in Italy, no pineapples in Hawaii, no potatoes in Ireland, no oranges in Florida, and no cattle in Texas.”
Why?

20. DEFINITION: Columbian Exchange
The Columbian Exchange was the exchange of living things, diseases, and ideas across the Atlantic Ocean between the Old World (Europe) and the New World (Americas), starting in the 1400s after Christopher Columbus discovered central America. This exchange occurred as a result of the Age of Exploration, and was the start of establishing global connections around the world.
WHO
WHAT
WHERE
WHEN
WHY

22. Video Clip “The Columbian Exchange”4 5
“The Columbian Exchange”
He divides the effects into 4 categories
Germs
Animals
Plants
People
Write down notes in two columns…
+ EFFECTS
- EFFECTS

23. Class Model of the Columbian Exchange
GOOD
BAD OR
Class Model of the Columbian Exchange
Get in a group/partnership
Choose your top GOOD thing and top BAD thing about the C.E.
Write it on the board where you think it would go.
As a class, we will create a model for the Columbian exchange
What goods came from where?
Which area was most affected?
RED = BAD
BLUE = GOOD

24. Was the contact of the Old and New Worlds more positive or negative?
Age of Exploration
Was the contact of the Old and New Worlds more positive or negative?
+ EFFECTS
- EFFECTS
5 minutes
All looking for:
Causes
Effects
WRITE YOUR REFELCTION HERE

25. SKILLS PRACTICE
Skill: Detect bias and evaluate credibility in source materials.
Look at these four sources and make a choice, yes or no.
So, did Columbus die really thinking he had discovered a trade route to India??
In order to find out, what sources would you need to look at?
DIRECTIONS:
Read through these four docs, and answer the questions in your notebooks.
Docs are Class copies, so don’t write on them.
At the end, answer the big question, and explain which document was the strongest piece of evidence in forming your answer.

26. Closure What are the 3Gs? What was your “lightbulb” moment today?
Causes and Effects of Exploration
Columbian Exchange: + or -?
Homework:
Work on the week 2 terms
Columbian Exchange
Introduction of Slaves to America
European motivations for exploration
What trade route were explorers searching for to Asia?
What was your “lightbulb” moment today?