1. Other Videos to intro/study/informative

2. Agenda Unit 3 - Exploration
To Get:
Guided notes from the back shelf
Textbook (pg. 95 and 96))
To Do:
Opener –Age of Exploration Video
Illustrated Dictionary
Age of Exploration Intro Guided Notes
New Inventions/Technologies
Reading Activity
The 3 G’s!
Explorer Group Work
Exit Slip
Objective: Students will understand how Renaissance ideas of religion, discovery and invention allowed for unknown areas of the world (to Europe) to be explored. (future implications….)
Introduction to Exploration Motives and Technologies
Notes

3. Bell Ringer: Age of Exploration
1. Where was Columbus from?
2. What country turned him down?
3. What country sponsored his voyage to the “Orient?”
4. What things did he “offer” the rest of the world?
5. Where did he first think he might be?
6. What did he cause to happen? (Hispaniola)

4. Illustrated Dictionary
Using the textbook complete the Exploration Illustrated Dictionary page in your guided notes
These are terms that you will need to know to understand our new unit on exploration
To receive credit you MUST define, list significance AND create an illustration that helps you, personally, to understand the meaning of each term. YOU MAY USE YOUR PHONE TO FIND IMAGES IF YOU NEED!
15 minutes

5. Quiz TIME! – How do your images stack up?

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13. Guided Notes: Historical Overview Transition of power
1200- Middle East was dominated by two powerful empires, the Byzantine in the northwest and the Islamic (Abbasid) caliphate through much of the middle eastern heartland.
BY 1258, Mongol conquest of Baghdad had ended Abbasid Caliphate
BY 1400, Ottoman Turks invaded and caused great decline in the Byzantine Empire.
BY 1453, Constantinople FALLS to the Ottoman Turks and ends the Byzantine Empire.
Transition of power
Arabs and Chinese still leaders and major influencers, BUT, Western Europe slowly starts to contend with these locations for power…
1400s- Italy, Spain, and Portugal took the lead in Western European outreach (exploration, travel, expansion)

14. The World Economy Silver becomes global currency of the period
Everyone wants it- allows Spain to build massive armies and grand buildings, Japanese mines raise output of silver, Europeans buy Asian goods with silver
China and India are largest recipients of silver-begins to replace paper money and merchants require silver even for common purchases

15. Maritime Power Europeans ignorant of other world cultures.
The crusades brought knowledge of Islamic world as far superior economically than Europe.
Europe wanted power, stability, and expansion, but…
Believed the world was flat
fearful of distant voyages.

16. New Technology Portugal led the way and Spain quickly followed.
Europeans develop ships capable of carrying heavy weapons
Cartography (mapmaking) and compasses improved as well as navigational skills
Added Chinese invention of explosives for European guns and cannons
Portugal led the way and Spain quickly followed.

18. COMPASS Fill in chart, in your guided notes, with each slide.
Chinese invention
Used the magnetic poles to calculate direction.

19. ASTROLABE Used position of stars to determine latitude
(location in relation to equator)

20. CARAVEL
Smaller, faster ships
Could maneuver in shallow waters

21. LATEEN SAILS Triangular in shape
Mounted at an angle, easier to maneuver

22. Advances in Shipbuilding
Learned to build ships that sat lower in the water
Allowed for stable ships that could carry larger amounts of trade goods.

23. Steering - Rudder
Allowed for one person to steer the ship as opposed to multiple people steering from the side with oars.

24. Reading Questions - pg. 95-96
For the Age of Exploration, the Renaissance encouraged a new spirit of ______________________ and _______________________.... which prompted Europeans to ___________________________ the world around them.
Before this time period contact of Europeans with the rest of the world was limited to, in 1100, European __________________________ that battled _____________________ and Marco Polo who reached the court of __________________ in China around that time of 1275.
What three things/ideas spurred an age of European exploration?
What was the MAIN reason for European exploration?
What was the main “luxury” item coming from Asia that Europeans were interested in? Name three.
What two groups controlled the trade of this region? How?
How did Europeans traders seek to bypass these merchants?
What were the two sacred duties European Christians felt during this time?
Who said, “To serve God and His Majesty, to give light to those who were in darkness and to grow rich as all men desire to do.”?
Name and explain the 3 G’s that motivated explorers of this period.

25. Reading Questions - pg. 95-96
For the Age of Exploration, the Renaissance encouraged a new spirit of adventure and curiosity….which prompted Europeans to explore the world around them.
Before this time period contact of Europeans with the rest of the world was limited to, in 1100, European crusaders that battled Muslims and Marco Polo who reached the court of Kublai Khan in China around that time of 1275.
What three things/ideas spurred an age of European exploration?Grow rich, Christianity, new technology
What was the MAIN reason for European exploration? New sources of wealth
What was the main “luxury” item coming from Asia that Europeans were interested in? Name three. Spices, nutmeg, cinnamon, pepper, and ginger
What two groups controlled the trade of this region? How? Muslims and Italians; land routes and increased prices
How did European traders seek to bypass these merchants? Sea routes
What were the two sacred duties European Christians felt during this time? Fight Muslims and convert non-Christians
Who said, “To serve God and His Majesty, to give light to those who were in darkness and to grow rich as all men desire to do.”? Bartolomeu Dias
Name and explain the 3 G’s that motivated explorers of this period. Guns, Gold, and Glory

26. Exit Slip: Create a Pictoword using the word EXPLORATION… -20 minutes -MUST BE IN COLOR!