1. Bell Ringer #1
It’s the year 2075 and you find yourself standing at the NASA launching pad at Cape Canaveral, Florida staring out into the night sky. You have been asked to go on a space mission to explore for a new planet that can sustain human life. Like most people, you have no idea what lies out past the Milky Way Galaxy. Astronomers know the locations or paths of the known asteroid belts, comets and black holes but not all of space has been explored.
You have heard of horror stories that people may not return and that ships in the past have had fatal accidents. What other dangers will you face. What is out there???? Aliens, black holes….???
But, you also know that our world has been overpopulated and is running out of resources. Private space companies have pooled their money and have developed a financial prize for the ship that discovers a new planet in which the human race can survive. This wealth will make you so wealthy that it will take care of you, your family and many of your generations that follow you.
Will you go……..

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4. Why study the Age of Exploration
1.Desire to obtain more and different goods at better prices influences our relations with other nations, just as it did back then. (World –wide economy)
2. People of many nations continue to act to preserve their culture from outsiders.
3. Languages and cultures carried by explorers still influence those places today. (Spanish in Latin America and English in India for ex.)
4. Today’s explorers still face unknown challenges.
5. Advances in technology allow present-day explorers to visit new places, just as it did back then.

5. Age of Exploration 1400’s-1600’s

6. When did it happen?
Age of Exploration took place during the 1400’s-1600’s
Around the same time as the Renaissance in Europe
Renaissance Spirit!

7. What was it?
God- it was their duty to god to expand, find new lands and spread of Christianity
Gold- wanted the riches that went with exploring (spices, new land, etc.)- not just gold!
Glory-wanted recognition for themselves and their country

8. Why did European Exploration happen
1. Crusades  by-pass “middle-men” to get to Asia.
2. Renaissance  curiosity about other lands / peoples.
3. Reformation  refugees & missionaries.
4. Monarchs seeking new sources of revenue.
5. Technological advances.
6. Fame and fortune.

10. What helped Europeans take to the seas
MEANS
Better maps
Compass & astrolabe
Improved ship suitable for trips on the open ocean (caravel)
Heavily armed ships (cannon)

11. New Maritime Technologies Better Maps [Portulan]
Hartman Astrolabe (1532)
Mariner’s Compass
Sextant

12. New Weapons Technology

13. A Map of the Known World, pre- 1492

17. What countries are involved?
Portugal
Spain
France
England
Netherlands

18. How did exploration impact the new world (North / South America?
Cultural diffusion- new ideas brought to the new world
Disease
Slavery
Slave trade-triangular trade
Economies based on agricultural products

19. How did it impact the old world? (Europe)
Disease
More $$$$
Power hungry
More trade- economy expanding…agricultural