1. Bellwork, August 21st You should know where to answer this!!
(p.s. if you don’t, answer in the first section of your interactive notebook)
Why is the corn/maize revolutionary?

2. Indirect Discoverers of the New World
1,000 C.E.
Vikings “discover” America

4. Why no stay? No strong-nation state that wanted to expand
Settlements soon abandoned

5. Europeans focused on Asia/Africa

6. Chain of events leads to accidental “discovery” of America

7. 1. Christian Crusaders 11th-14th centuries
Fighting Muslims for control of the Holy Land
Discover super cool new stuff while losing wars

9. Examples:
Silk
Drugs
Perfumes
Fabrics
Sugars
Spices

10. How do Europeans get these goods?
China, India, and Spice Islands (Indonesia)
Travel across Indian Ocean, Persian Gulf, and Red Sea OR
Caravan routes
Ports on the eastern Mediterranean

12. middlemen

13. 2. Marco? . . . Polo! Italian adventurer returns to Europe in 1295
20 years in China
Stimulated desires

14. 3. Portuguese Technological Advances
Caravel
Africa and winds
Moral of the story= sub-Saharan Africa accessible

15. Access to Sub-Saharan Africa
Gold!
Slaves (no exclamation point)
Portuguese develop trading ports

16. Slave Trade Africans and Arab “flesh merchants”
Portuguese developed same practices

17. Why slaves? Sugar plantations
40,000 Africans transported from
Origins of modern plantation system

18. Other Portuguese Discoveries
Dias
De Gama
Stimulated desires

19. 4. Unification of Spain Ferdinand of Aragon m. Isabella of Castille
Expulsion of Moors (Muslims) from Spain
Sudden burst of nationalism
Portuguese going west, Spain goes east

20. Renaissance
“Ambitious spirit of optimism and adventure”

21. Printing Press
Spreads info

22. Stage is set . . .
“Europeans clamored for more and cheaper products from the lands beyond the Mediterranean. Africa had been established as a source of cheap slave labor for plantation agriculture. The Portuguese voyages had demonstrated the feasibility of long-range ocean navigation. In Spain a modern nation-state was taking shape, with the unity, wealth, and power to shoulder the formidable tasks of discovery, conquest, and colonization . . .

23. Columbus story

24. 6 degrees of separation
Six degrees of separation is the theory that everyone and everything is six or fewer steps away, by way of introduction, from any other person in the world, so that a chain of "a friend of a friend" statements can be made to connect any two people in a maximum of six steps. It was originally set out by Frigyes Karinthy and popularized by a play written by John Guare.

25. Who cares?
Your job is to connect the Crusades to Columbus’s voyage to America.
Duh.
In class activity, where will this go?

26. 30 points:
1 pt for labeling each event/topic = 6 points
4 points for four sentences per topic linking = 24 points
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