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What do you see in this picture?
Write down what you think is going on
Picture Analysis: What do you see?
Draw this
chart in your
spiral. Does
not have to
be very
large. Top
of page only
What You See
What Can You Infer?
Exploration Focus
Write the following sentence stem in your spiral:
My family came to Katy, Texas, because…
Fill in the reason your family moved to this area.
People change locations for many reasons.
Social-Desire to be with family (or to get away from)
Economic-To go to a place where you can work or gain
wealth (or to leave a place where there is no work)
Political-To claim land for your country or give your country
glory & fame
Religious-To have freedom to worship the way you choose
and to share your beliefs with others
The Great
Race
Exploration and Colonization of the World by Europe
Credits: ClipArt, ABC-Clio, Grolier Online, Britannica Online
Colonization is when a group of people leave
their home country and go to a new land to
form a community that is still connected to
the parent nation.
Example: England
sent people to the
American “colonies”.
They still thought of
themselves as English,
not American.
England was in charge
and made the rules.
Exploration is the investigation of
unknown regions.
People explore for many different reasons.
1. Find wealth (Economic)
2. Find people to convert to their religion (Religious)
3. To claim land for their home country (Political)
4. To become famous (Social)
Draw the
triangle and
boxes. Fill
in the
reasons for
exploration
given in the
following
notes
The 3
G’s:
Reasons
Europe
Explored
and
Colonized
The 3
European
Countries:
1.
2.
3.
England
France
Spain
On your paper list the
3 European countries
that were competing in
The Great Race.
Map of the known world before
Columbus discovered America
Europe
India & China
(Far East)
Africa
Where is America?
Europe
India & China (Asia)
North America
Actually
ended up here
Africa
South America
Thought
they’d end up
here
The Big Picture
The exploration of the
Americas after 1492
was a breathtaking
period.
But what pushed
Europeans to
Explore?
(Why did your
family move to
Katy?)
What pushed Europeans to Explore?Content Frame
Event
What is it?
Type of Reason to
Explore
• Period of time after the
“Dark Ages” or “Middle
Ages”. (The time in
Europe which was marked
by frequent warfare.
People were surviving, not
creating art or literature.)
• People of the Renaissance
were not satisfied with the
status quo.
Time when people
began wanting to
find and experience
new foods, places &
people
Renaissance
by LEONARDO
da Vinci
by MICHELANGELO
Social-(We’ll
go
into this more later)
Rise of Nation
States
• Smaller areas merged with other
areas to form countries. Larger
countries had more power than
smaller ones. Spain, France,
England, Portugal, Netherlands,
etc….
• Kings and Queens needed $ to run
their countries.
Economic
Countries used
exploration, colonization
and trade to raise
money.
Protestant Reformation
• Kings controlled their people by making it illegal for them
to have Bible’s that they could read. The church leadership
got a lot of power from the Kings by telling the people they
wouldn’t get into Heaven if they didn’t do everything they
were told.
• In the 1500’s, a man named Guttenberg created a printing
press that made it possible to print Bibles people could
afford. Suddenly, people could read for themselves what
God said about getting into Heaven and it didn’t match what
they’d been told by their church leaders and the Kings.
Many began to break from the Roman Catholic church so
they could follow what they believed God was telling them.
People began to decide for themselves how to
worship God & they wanted to share God with others.
• The Kings and the church leaders REALLY didn’t like
losing their power over the people so they began to
persecute those who were reading and teaching what the
Bible said.
Religious
• They:
1. Arrested them
2. Broke into their homes and took all their stuff
3. Refused to allow them to work
4. Branded them on their foreheads and slit their noses
5. AND killed them by burning them alive or shooting them!
Thousands were killed in France,
Martin Luther
Germany, Spain and England by
Kings determined to make people
stop reading the Bible! But people
kept meeting in secret and sharing
what they were learning.
Pilgrims
Printing Press
• Before this, books were
copied word for word by
hand. Took months or
years to print 1 book!
Printing Press could
print books
faster/cheaper.
People read about exciting
places-wanted to see them
Political/Religious
The first book printed
was the Bible!
• Middle class could afford
books. Poor people still
could not read or write.
Example of Celtic
Handwritten Bible
Now go back to
your Triangle and
fill in the 3 Main
Reasons Europeans
set out to Explore
(Also called the 3
G’s)
So, where did
they go first and
what sent them
there?
Crusades
Wars to take back the Holy Lands from the Muslim
Turks. Exposed Europeans to spices and silks.
People in Europe wanted more of these items.
England, France and Spain began competing with
each other trying to be the first to find a new way
to Asia
Why were England, France, and Spain
competing with each other?
• Italians controlled the trade route to
the Indies.
Italians had
a
Monopoly
• Silk Road-Overland route used to get to Asia from
Europe. Italians controlled this route. Europeans had =No other
to pay very high prices to travel this path so they could competitors
get the products from the east.
• England, France and Spain Write this
next to your
each wanted to be the
triangle in
country to find a quicker way open area
to Asia. That way they
could control the spice trade.
Very long and dangerous route over land.
Sailing around
Africa took too
long and was also
dangerous
GLORY/National
Pride
3 G’s
Reasons for
European
Exploration
and
Colonization!
GOLD/Wealth
GOD/Spread
Christianity
What pushed Europeans to Explore?
Type of Reason to
Explore
Event
What is it?
Renaissance
Time when people began
wanting to find and
experience new foods, places
& people
Rise of Nation
States
Countries used exploration,
colonization and trade to
raise money.
Economic
Protestant
Reformation
People began to decide for
themselves how to worship God.
Religious
Printing Press
Printing Press could print
books faster/cheaper.
Political/ Religious
Social
England, France
and Spain each
wanted to be the
country to find a
quicker way to
Asia. That way
they could
control the spice
trade.
Glory/National
Pride=Political
The 3
G’s:
Reasons the
European
Countries
Set out to
Explore
Gold/Wealth=Eco
nomic
The 3
European
Countries:
1. England
2. Spain
3. France
God/Spread
Christianity=
Religious
Goals of the “Race”(Explorers)!
Write Political, Economic, Religious next to each
sentence
1. Stop having to pay the Italians for the goods from the East.
_________________________
2. Beat the other countries at finding a faster route to get the goods
from the East. _____________
3. Look for Gold & Jewels to get rich ___________
4. Fame for you and your country ______________
5. Get Foreign goods to sell and use-Spices, Silks ________
6. Save the Indians souls ______________
7. Adventure-Seeing new lands and people __________
8. Set up a colony in the name of your King/Country. _____
9. Spread Catholicism-Your religion _____________
10. Expand your Empire (Country) ______________
Goals of the “Race”(Explorers)!
1. Stop having to pay the Italians for the goods from the
East. (Economic/Political)
2. Beat the other countries at finding a faster route to get
the goods from the East. (Political/Economic)
3. Look for Gold & Jewels to get rich (Economic)
4. Fame for you and your country (Political)
5. Get Foreign goods to sell and use-Spices, Silks (Economic)
6. Save the Indians souls (Religious)
7. Adventure-Seeing new lands and people (Political)
8. Set up a colony in the name of your King/Country.
(Political)
9. Spread Catholicism-Your religion (Religious)
10. Expand your Empire (Country) (Political)