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Day 1
Aim: How did the Middle Ages in Europe lead to exploration in America?
a) Medieval Days and Ways reading and questions
b) Effects notes:
1) new ideas
2) new products
3) new learning
4) weakened Feudalism
5) people are curious and begin to explore life beyond the manor
c) Marco Polo reading (class set)
Main ideas:
1) Traveled 24 years to and back from China
2) Caused a public interest in exploration
3) Book- Travels of Marco Polo
4) Silk Road to China
Day 2
Aim: Who were the first early explorers?
a) Reading on the Vikings/questions
1) Who were the Vikings and where did they live?
2) How were Vikings able to find their way without compasses or other
navigational tools?
3) What prompted the Vikings to leave their homelands and sail across
unknown seas?
4) What factors helped the Vikings to become great shipbuilders and sailors?
b) Play on the Vikings
Day 3
Aim: How did the Portuguese pave the way for exploration?
a) Why did explorers look for new sea routes? Answer- new goods, faster, cheaper
b) Italian Monopoly
1) Italians controlled the Mediterranean Sea
2) Every good passed through Italy first
3) Italy had complete control of Asian trade
4) Portugal (Dias, Da Gama) and Spain (Columbus) wanted a share
c) Notes on the Portuguese:
1) Prince Henry
- “prince Henry the Navigator”
- set up navigation school
- sent explorers to African coast
- slave trade established
2) Dias (1487)
- sailed around tip of Africa to the Cape of Good Hope
- found route to India
3) Da Gama (1498)
- Sailed all the way to India across the Indian ocean
- Returned with spices, jewels & silk (60x original cost of voyage)
- Captured monopoly on Asian waterways *
d) Reading Portuguese Exploration
e) Label map of Portuguese explorers
Day 4
Aim: Who was Christopher Columbus and how did he try to break the Italian monopoly?
a) Slide rows and write down five things that you know about Columbus
- Italian sailor sponsored by Spain
- Wanted to reach Asia by sailing west
- Sponsored by Spain (Ferdinand and Isabella) in an effort to gain fame,
wealth, control of monopoly, spread Christianity
- Reached Bahamas, but thought he was in the East Indies
b) Columbian Exchange
- exchange of plants, animals, goods, disease and technology from the Old
World to the New World and vice versa (Map handout)
c) Spain Vs. Portugal
- Port trading with India and getting rich
- Sp claiming land in Americas
- Rivalry develops
- (1493) Pope asked to solve the dispute = Line of Demarcation
-an imaginary line splitting the world in half between Sp and Port
- Sp got North and South America
- Port got Europe, Asia, Africa
- Treaty of Tordesillas (1494) – shifted the line slightly west to give Port part of
Brazil in South America
Day 5
Aim: Who are some of the world’s famous explorers?
a) Complete chart on the famous explorers
- Northwest Passage- a passage believed to run directly through North
America so that you could sail from the Atlantic through to the Pacific.
Didn’t really exist, but caused exploration of the interior of the country.
b) Results of Exploration
1) Fur trading posts, fisheries, churches and forts
2) colonies- settlements ruled by a distant mother country
3) Destruction of Natives:disease, battle, enslavement
4) New Resources: forests, furs, fishing grounds, new knowledge of geography
d) New World Opportunities (handout) to review
Day 6
Aim: Why did the English, French and Spanish come to North America?
a) Read out of class book about the Colonization of the Americas
b) Answer questions to handout Exploration of the New World
Day 7
Aim: How did Spain conquer the largest empire in the New World?
a) Picture study of Cortes and Montezuma
b) Reading on Cortes and Pizarro conquering Mexico and Peru
Day 8
Aim: How did the Spanish settlers treat the Natives in New Spain?
a) Hierarchy chart
b) Read about the Relations Between the Native Americans and the Spanish (class set)
and answer questions
Day 9
Aim: Acquiring sponsorship
a) Drawing (class set) Native Treatment Under Spanish Rule and questions
b) Acquiring sponsorship
Day 10
Aim: How did power over the Atlantic Ocean Switch from Spain to England?
a) Silver bar graph and questions
b) Teacher will read to the class about Spain’s American Empire while students take
notes
- students will then use the notes to answer questions about how Spain lost
power to England in the 1500s
c) Define:
1) Joint Stock Company-investors share cost of colony
- split losses and profits
- less risky
- larger amounts of $ raised
2) charter- official paper from the king granting permission to settle in an
area
3) Indentured Servant- work 4-7 years in exchange for the cost of a boat
passage to the new world; helps ordinary people settle
Day 11
Aim: Why did the colony of Roanoke fail?
a) review Joint Stock Company, charter, and indentured servant
b) Who was Richard Hakluyt?
c) Read about the Lost Colony of Roanoke and discuss problems with the colony
- lack of people
- food
- supplies
- bad land
- no protected harbor and shifting tides
d) Read Relevant Information About Roanoke and discuss possible theories as to
why the colony vanished
Day 12
Aim: The Mother Country, the colonies and mercantilism.
a) Complete the handout Europeans Compete for Colonial Empires
b) Read about Mercantilism
- English Colony (children) creates raw materials [lumber, cotton]  sells cheap
to England (Mother Country)  who finishes goods and sells the manufactured
product [furniture, cloth] back to the colony for a profit
c) Look at chart in textbook on the Causes and Effects of European Exploration
Day 13
Aim: What was life like for an indentured servant?
a) Misery reading and questions
Day 14
Aim: To review exploration and early settlements
a) review game
Day 15
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