Jump Start- Annotate Notes • Get a print out of the Age of Exploration PowerPoint from the desk at the front • If you already have one get it out • Get out your highlighter or one from the bucket • When the bell rings, I will instruct you as to what to highlight for this set of notes • When we are finished, they will go in the brads of your class folder.
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Jump Start- Annotate Notes
• Get a print out of the Age of Exploration PowerPoint from the desk at the front• If you already have one get it out
• Get out your highlighter or one from the bucket• When the bell rings, I will instruct you as to what
to highlight for this set of notes• When we are finished, they will go in the brads
of your class folder.
Mercantilism Game• Objective: You have 12 minutes to conquer as much
land, people, and gold as possible.• Your expedition will face a series of obstacles.• Once your team has completed an obstacle, bring it to
me to check.• If you are correct, your team will place a flag on the
land that your team chooses to conquer and claim.• Each piece of available land holds a different amount
of gold and silver.• The team with the most gold at the end wins!
Jump Start- Make sure you have the following questions from Friday answered completely
1. What do the countries represent?
2. What real obstacles did those groups face?
3. Why place flags upon the map?
4. Why only 12 minutes?
5. What does the gold represent?
6. Why were you not all from the same country?
7. Why was it a competition? Why couldn’t multiple teams colonize the same area of land?
Main Idea
Countries tried to gain wealth by controlling trade and establishing colonies.
Mercantilism
• Nation’s strength depended on its wealth
• Wealthy nations had more powerful militaries and expanded influence
New Economic Policy• Wealth measured by amount
of gold & silver a nation had
• For one nation to become more powerful, it had to take wealth away from another nation
• People in Americas—no coffee, oranges, rice, wheat, sheep, cattle
The Exchange of Goods
The Columbian Exchange
• Arrival of Europeans in Americas changed all this
• Previously unknown foods taken back to Europe
• Familiar foods brought to Americas by colonists
Sharing Discoveries
Different Foods• Exchange of foods and animals had dramatic impact on later societies• Over time crops native to Americas became staples in diets of Europeans• Foods provided substantial nutrition and helped people live longer• Traditional cuisines changed because of Columbian Exchange
Italian Food Without Tomatoes?• Until contact with Americas, Europeans had never tried tomatoes• Most Europeans thought tomatoes were poisonous• By late 1600s, tomatoes had begun to be included in Italian cookbooks
Economics• Activities like Texas cattle ranching and Brazilian coffee growing not
possible without Columbian Exchange
Effects of the Columbian Exchange
Devastating Impact
• Native American population continued to decline for centuries due to these epidemics (outbreak of disease)
• Inca Empire decreased from 13 million in 1492 to 2 million in 1600
The Introduction of New Diseases
• Native Americans had no natural resistance to European diseases
• Smallpox, measles, influenza, malaria killed millions
• Population of central Mexico may have decreased by more than 30% in the 10 yrs following European contact