Exploration

Exploration Chapters 19/20


 * Chapters 19/20**
 * Chapter Test on Thursday, May 24**


 * Overall Objectives: **
 * Explain how desire for wealth and Christian converts begins the age of exploration. What factors lead to European exploration? How does Portugal establish a sea route to Asia? What nations set up trading empires in the East?
 * Identify how Columbus’ voyage prompts the Spanish to carve out the first European colonies in the Americas; explain how the Spanish culture, language, and descendants are a legacy of this period. How does the conquest of America begin with Columbus? How do the Spanish conquest the Aztec and Inca? What effect does the Spanish colonization have on the Americas?
 * Explain how European nations fought for control of North America and how England triumphs; Identify how English settlers impact law and government. What are the French, English and Dutch activities in North America? What were the competing claims in North America? How did Native Americans respond to European claims?
 * Describe how growing labor needs leads Europeans enslaved millions of Africans in the Americas; explain how enslaved Africans represent a significant part of the America’s population today. How does the slave trade evolve in Africa/New World? What was the middle passage and the triangular trade? What was the life of a slave in the colonies? What were the short/long term consequences of the Atlantic slave trade?
 * Explain how the American colonization introduced new and different items into the Eastern/Western hemispheres; explain how global exchange of goods permanently change Europe, Asia, Africa, and the Americas.

Geography Skillbuilder (467) #1-2 _
 * Bell Ringers: 40 points **
 * Monday, May 14 Interact w/ History (482) – Examining The Issues _
 * Tuesday, May 15 Science and Technology (465) Connect to History/Today
 * Wednesday, May 16 Interact w/ History (482) – Examining The Issues _
 * Thursday, May 17 Geography Skillbuilder (484) #1-2 _
 * Friday, May 18 Analyzing Motive (496, B)/Analyzing Issues (497, C) _
 * Monday, May 21 Columbian Food Exchange (501) Connect History/Today _
 * Tuesday, May 22 Focus on Art (505) – Answer all questions _


 * Read: By:**
 * Chapter 19/1 Monday, May 14 _
 * Chapter 20/1 Tuesday, May 15 _
 * Chapter 20/3 Wednesday, May 16 _
 * Chapter 20/4 Thursday, May 17 _


 * Homework: 50 points (All Due on Wednesday, May 23)**
 * Chapter 19/1 _
 * Chapter 20/1 _
 * Chapter 20/3 _
 * Chapter 20/4 _
 * Chapter 19 Review #11-14 AND Chapter 20 #11-13, 16-20, CT #3 _

Make a chart – Fact/Example/Cause
 * Class Activities: 75 points**
 * Tues, May 15: Poster – European Quest for profits and other motives _
 * Wed, May 16: The Legacy of Columbus (489) Connect History/Today _
 * Thurs, May 17: Mid-Atlantic/Triangular Trade _
 * Fri, May 18: Geography of Food Video Worksheet _
 * Mon/Tue, May 21-22: Theme project


 * Extra Credit: 25 points **
 * Answer all the questions in the objectives (typed). _

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