1. Bell Ringer
Describe how the Native American’s lived and prospered prior to European contact. Provide at least 4 descriptions.

2. Bell Ringer
What was the Magna Carta. Make an inference concerning how this document will influence colonial America.

3. LEQ: How will the Europeans benefit from exploration?

4. Major Events Signing of the Magna Carta
M. C. forced the king to follow the same rules as the citizens.

5. Europe’s Current Events
Rise of the Feudal System

6. Why explore in the first place??
Because of the Crusades, the Muslims controlled the trade routes to the far east.

7. Why explore in the first place??
The Muslims forced the Europeans to pay high prices for goods.
What other goods were valuable?

8. Why explore in the first place??
Europeans will search for shorter routes to the far east.

9. Who is paying?
Prince Henry of Portugal will establish a school of navigation.
Teach men to use astrolabe, compass and the art of cartography.

10. Who is paying? Portugal and Spain will lead the way in exploration
England, Netherlands, and France will soon follow.

11. Who will go?
The Portuguese will sail up and down the western coast of Africa (Gold Coast)

12. Who will go?
Bartolomeu Dias will establish a route from Portugal to India.

13. Who will go?
1492, Christopher Columbus will sail west in order to reach the Far East.

14. Who will go?
Christopher Columbus believed he had reached the Indies

15. Who will go?
1507, Amerigo Vespucci realizes that Columbus had discovered a new land.

16. Analyzing History
In 1493, upon returning from his first voyage to America, Christopher Columbus wrote a report to the Spanish government. This excerpt comes from that report.
“This is a land to be desired… never to be relinquished. Here in a place most suitable and best for its proximity to the gold mines and for [transportation to Europe]… I took possession of a large town [from natives]. I have made fortifications there, and I have left in it men, with arms and artillery and provisions for more than a year.”
Q: Why did Columbus seize this town?
Q: How do you suppose the natives felt about the actions of Columbus and his men?

17. Why will other explorers follow?
For this portion of your notes, please take out a sheet of paper.
Tree Map Activity

18. Gold

19. Glory

20. God

21. Now Let’s See It

22. Columbian Exchange
The exchange of goods, plants, ideas and diseases between the Americas and Europe, Africa and Asia.

23. Columbian Exchange
Old World- Europe, Africa and Asia

24. Columbian Exchange
New World- South, Central and North America