Complete on loose-leaf: Draw a map from your home to AHS. Include as much detail as possible.

Today’s Warm Up

Complete on loose-leaf:Draw a map from your home to AHS. Include as much detail as possible.

Unit 2: Exploration and Globalization

Unit Essential Question: Why are some places more culturally diverse or similar than others?

Today’s LEQ: What encouraged exploration during the late 1400s & 1500s?

The Age of Exploration

Today’s LEQ: What encouraged European exploration during the 1400s and 1500s?

Age of Exploration

Between 1400 & 1700, a new world opened up for Europe

Voyages to new lands led to colonization, wealth, power, & the diffusion of goods & ideas

Why Explore?

The Three G’s:GoldGloryGod

The First G: GoldGold = hot item explorers were looking for but it’s really wealth they were after

Europeans also desired spices

Other natural resources would come to be sold for profit as well timber, sugar, tobacco, ivory, etc.

The First G: Gold

This competition was enhanced by the idea of mercantilism – a nation’s strength depends on its wealth More money = better military

Fixed amount of wealth

The Second G: Glory The Renaissance

fostered humanism – explorers hoped a great discovery would bring honor to their names; kings wanted glory for their country Printing press

made this possible

The Triumph of Fame, a Flemish tapestry from 1502.

The Third G: God

After the Reformation, competition springs up among Christian sects

Colonization & missionary work became a race to convert native peoples to a particular brand of Christianity

Advances in Technology

Advances in technology made the Age of Exploration possible

Navigational technology like the compass and astrolabe allowed sailors to plot courses even when out of sight of land

The caravel was a light, fast sailing ship that was easily maneuverable and could be armed

How did these explorations begin? 1st to encourage new

explorations was Prince Henry of Portugal, known as “Prince Henry the Navigator”

Started an institute for seafaring and exploring

Combined ship technology learned from Islam with new European innovations

Map Analysis Observe:

Describe what you see – what do you notice first? What looks strange or unfamiliar? What place or places do you see? Graphical elements? Words

(familiar or unfamiliar)? Reflect:

Why do you think this map was made? Who was the intended audience?

How does this map compare to current maps of this place? What would be different if this map were made today? What would be the same?

What does this map tell you about what the people who made it knew and what they didn’t?

Question: What do you wonder about… Who? What? When? Where? Why?

How? Come up with at least two thought-provoking questions you have about your section of the map.

Be ready to present your map analysis!

Waldseemueller Map

Reflection

Propose how U.S. history may have evolved differently if this map was not created.

All nations have laws to protect their antiquities. Why did the German government permit the Waldseemüller Map, World 1507 to come to the Library of Congress?

Video Clip

http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=4060

Explorers Chart

Using pages 74-75 in your textbook, map the voyages of Portugal (purple)

On the back of your map, list each explorer and explain the significance of their voyages