Download Unit 1 Resources: Different Worlds Meet

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★ Guided Reading Activity 2-1
DIRECTIONS: Filling in the Blanks Use your textbook to fill in the blanks
using the words in the box. Use another sheet of paper if necessary.
magnetic compass
exploration and discovery
Marco Polo
Renaissance
Africa
East
Italian
Muslims
trade
Asia
Expanding Horizons
More people became interested in India, China, and the rest of Asia as the story of
spread and exotic goods from the East appeared in European market-
places. The (2)
, a period of great intellectual and artistic creativity, encour-
aged Europeans to pursue new ideas and paved the way for an age of (3)
.
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(1)
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Powerful Nations Emerge
During the 1400s, merchants and bankers wanted to expand their businesses by
buying goods from the (4)
(5)
directly, without going through the Arab and
cities. Strong monarchs in Spain, Portugal, England, and France sought
ways to increase (6)
and make their countries stronger.
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Technology’s Impact
Technological advances helped prepare the way for European voyages of exploration. They included navigational instruments, such as the (7)
and the astro-
labe. These advances helped launch a new era of exploration as powerful countries
began searching for sea routes to (8)
.
African Kingdoms
Trade of such resources as gold, copper, iron ore, and ivory helped create wealthy,
powerful kingdoms in (9)
became (10)
south of the Sahara. Many West Africans in Ghana
as a result of their contacts with North African traders.
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Name
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★ Guided Reading Activity 2-2
DIRECTIONS: Recalling the Facts Use the information in your textbook to
answer the questions. Use another sheet of paper if necessary.
1. What country led exploration in the early 1400s? _____________________________
2. Why was Prince Henry called Henry the Navigator?
3. Where was the Gold Coast? _______________________________________________
4. What did the Portuguese trade and buy on the Gold Coast?
5. Who led the Portuguese expedition to India in 1497?
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6. How did Christopher Columbus plan to reach Asia?
7. When did the Viking Leif Eriksson land in Newfoundland? ___________________
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8. Who financed Columbus’s 1492 voyage? ____________________________________
9. What were the names of Columbus’s three ships?
10. Why did Columbus write “having trouble with the crew”?
12. What imaginary line was drawn down the middle of the Atlantic to keep peace
between Spain and Portugal?
13. What gave Spain the right to most of North and South America? _______________
14. Who claimed the Pacific Ocean for Spain?
15. Who was the first to circumnavigate the world?
16. How long did the first voyage around the world take? ________________________
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11. Why are the Caribbean islands called the West Indies?
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★ Guided Reading Activity 2-3
DIRECTIONS: Filling in the Blanks Use your textbook to fill in the blanks
using the words in the box. Use another sheet of paper if necessary.
Africans
guns and cannons
Francisco Pizarro
diseases
Atahualpa
fountain of youth
Juan Ponce de León
slaves
Hernán Cortés
Hernando de Soto
settlements
class
Montezuma
plantations
Fransisco Vásquez
de Coronado
Spanish Conquistadors
Spanish conquistadors received grants from Spanish rulers to explore and establish
(1)
in the Americas. In 1519 (2)
landed on the east coast of Mexico.
(3)
, whom he then took prisoner. In 1532 (4)
(5)
and destroyed much of the Incan army. The conquistadors conquered
the Aztecs and Incas partly because the Spanish had weapons such as (6)
The Europeans unknowingly brought (7)
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captured the Inca ruler
.
to which Native Americans
had no immunity.
Spain in North America
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(8)
, the first Spaniard to land on the mainland of North America, was
searching for gold and the (9)
. Tales of the seven cities of gold told by
Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca in 1536 inspired the explorations of (10)
and (11)
.
Spanish Rule
The Spanish developed a complex (12)
system in the Americas. The
Spanish government granted each conquistador the right to demand taxes or labor
from the Native Americans, which turned the Native Americans into (13)
.
Bartolomé de Las Casas helped improve conditions for Native Americans. By the
mid-1500s, however, the Spanish forced (14)
Spanish tobacco and sugarcane (15)
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He was welcomed into the Aztec capital of Tenochtitlán by the Aztec emperor
to work as slaves on the
.
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Name
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★ Guided Reading Activity 2-4
DIRECTIONS: Outlining Locate each heading in your textbook. Then use the
information under the heading to help you write each answer. Use another
sheet of paper if necessary.
I. A Divided Church
A. Introduction—Whose protests started the Protestant Reformation? ____________
B. Protestantism Spreads in Europe
1. Who was John Calvin? ________________________________________________
2. What did the English Parliament do in 1533 that helped establish England as
a Protestant nation?
C. Religious Rivalries in the Americas—How did the religious rivalries in
western Europe affect the Americas?
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II. Economic Rivalry
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A. Introduction—What two factors pushed Europeans to establish settlements
in the Americas?
B. The Columbian Exchange—What was the Columbian Exchange?
C. A Northwest Passage
1. How did England, France, and the Netherlands view the Treaty of Tordesillas?
D. Hudson’s Discoveries—What happened to Henry Hudson after his discovery
of Hudson Bay?
E. French Open Trading Posts—Why did the French settle Canada?
F. Dutch Settlements—Where did the Dutch set up trading posts in the early 1600s?
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2. What were the explorers John Cabot, Giovanni da Verrazano, and
Jacques Cartier looking for on their voyages?