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The Great Age of
Exploration 1400-1550
Use this Presentation to
take funky Notes! These
funky Notes are your
study guide for the
Explorers Unit Test!
By:
Ms. Caldwell
Essential Question: How did
exploration change world
cultures?
Objectives:
Competency Goals: 7.h.2.1 analyze the
effects of social, economic, military and
political conflict among nations, regions, and
groups (e.g. war, genocide, imperialism and
colonization).
Age of Exploration- Early 15th to
17th century when European
sailors explored many parts of the
world, especially North America.
Explorers were in search for gold,
silver, and spices
•Movement
•Location
•Physical education
•Supply and demand
•Technology
•Conquest
•Conflict
•Imperialism
•Colonialism
•Cooperation v.s. Competition
Global Age
• A time when all civilizations can be in contact
with others around the world.
Explorers
• A person who travels in search of geographical
or scientific information
Compass
• A device for determining directions by means
of a magnetic needle or group of needles
turning freely on a pivot and pointing to the
magnetic north.
Missionaries
• A person undertaking a mission and especially
a religious mission
Astrolabe
• A compact instrument used to observe and
calculate the position of celestial bodies
Cargo
• The goods or merchandise conveyed in a ship,
airplane, or vehicles
Circumnavigate
• To circumnavigate a place, such as an island, a
continent, or the earth, is to travel all the way
around it by boat.
Armada
• A word of Spanish origin similar to navy or
fleet
(Look up the Spanish Armada of 1588)
Conquistador
• one of the Spanish conquerors of Mexico and
Peru who took part in the conquest of large
parts of the Americas and Asia, bringing them
under Spanish colonial rule between the 15th
and 19th centuries.
In the 1400s
• Europeans began to sail around the globe
Exit Task Quiz
*use exit note card to complete
• In the 1400s ______ began sailing around the
globe.
• _________ is a time when all civilizations can
be in contact with others around the world.
-What technologies made exploration
possible?
-How did exploration lead to colonialism?
-How did exploration boost nationalism?