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Age of Exploration
“God, Glory and Gold”
Europe and the Far East
Map Activity
• Use the map on page 121 to draw the routes
for each of the following explores. You must
create a map key and label and color all of
continents and oceans.
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Magellan (1519)
Columbus (1492)
Cabot (1497)
Mayflower (1620)
Vespucci (1499)
Ponce de Leon (1512-13)
Hudson (1609 and 1610)
Verrazano (1524)
Cartier ( 1534-35)
Timeline Activity
• Using the information provided create a
timeline of the major events that took
place during the Age of Exploration.
• Your timeline must include the following:
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Title
Date of event
Explorer
Country
Area claimed
A minimum of five pictures
Color
Why Explore????????
• Crusades and journeys of Marco Polo
exposed Europeans to new
technologies, products, and culture
Spices=nutmeg, cinnamon,
ginger, pepper
Silk
Opium=medicinal and
“recreational” use
Why Explore????????
•The new products
offered the
opportunity to make
money
•Products expensive
in Europe due to
control of trade
routes by Muslim
“middle men”
Prices Under Muslim/Italian
Trade Domination
Spices and other Luxury Goods
Muslims $
Italian Merchants $$
European Merchants $$$
European Consumers $$$$
Why Explore????????
•Religion
•Power struggle in
Europe between
Catholics / Protestants
•Both churches want to
spread their influence
and obtain converts
•Jesuits – specially
trained Catholic priests
to combat spread of
Protestantism
Why Explore????????
•Science
•Sailing technology
and navigation made
it possible
•Astrolabe –
instrument to guide
sailors with stars
•Caravel – triangular
sail
•Magnetic Compass
•Curiosity and
questioning of
scientific theories
Sailing on a Boat
Rations
Conditions
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• http://www.history.c
om/interactives/ageof-exploration
• How are the rations
and conditions on a
military ship today
different then life on a
boat in the 17th
century?
• http://www.nbcnews.
com/video/nightlynews/51755386#517
55386
four tons of salt beef
2,800 pounds of salt pork
a few beef tongues
600 pounds of salted codfish
15,000 brown biscuits
5000 white biscuits
30 bushels of oatmeal
40 bushels of dried peas
1.5 bushels of mustard seed
one barrel of salt
100 pounds suet (beef fat)
one barrel of flour
eleven small casks of butter
one large cask of vinegar
10,000 gallons of beer
3,500 gallons of water
two large casks of apple cider
Leaders in Early Exploration
Portugal
and
Spain
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The Portuguese
•Prince Henry
•Son of Portuguese
King
•Dazzled by dreams of
ocean exploration and
East Asia
•Established a
navigation school
•Portuguese survival
based on it’s ability to
trade - OCEAN
The Portuguese
•Vasco de Gama
•First to sail
around Africa to
India (27,000 mi)
The Spanish
•Spain jealous of
Portugal’s
achievements
(rivals)
•King Ferdinand
and Queen
Isabella
Christopher Columbus
•Plan to sail west to get
to the Far East
•Lands on Caribbean
island in 1492
•Dies believing he
landed in India
Tension Between Spain and Portugal
• The Spark
• Columbus's voyage to “Asia”
• The Fuel
• Portugal's claim to Asia
• The Extinguisher
• Pope Alexander VI
• The Treaty of Tordesillas 1494
• The line of Demarcation
Treaty of Tordesillas
Trade in the Indian Ocean
• Portugal
• In the early 1500’s
they took control of
spice trade from
Muslims
• Fighting took place
between Portugal and
Muslims
• Took control of
Moluccas (Spice
Islands)
• Prices cut to 1/5th
East Indies Trading Companies
• Companies could:
• Mint money
• Make treaties
• And raise their own
armies
• Companies eroded
Portugal's control of
East Asia.
• Dutch East Indies
Company
• 1600’s
• 20,000 vessels
• Amsterdam becomes a
major commercial
center
• Control the Cape of
Good Hope (Africa)
• Controlled the spice
islands
• English East Indies
Company
• India
• Indian Cloth
Native American Cultures
Activity Day 1
• Examine the artifacts
for your culture and
answer the following
questions:
• What conclusions can
you draw about this
culture?
• What impression do
you think the
European explores had
of these cultures?
• Read the information
given about your
culture and fill out
the chart based on
your reading.
• Record your answers
on a poster board to
share with the class.
• Homework: Bring in
an artifact that you
think represents our
culture today.