1. Explorers to the Americas

2. Sponge Describe the Renaissance from 7th grade.
Provide your own definition of the term Technology.

3. Sponge What three goals did each Explorers have?
Identify one piece of Technology that may have been used during exploration?
List three major trade items were being brought from Asia to Europe?
Who created the first moveable printing press?

4. Bell Work During the Columbian Exchange…
Identify three items that were brought from the New World back to Europe.
Identify three items that were brought from Europe to the New World.
What product was traded on the Middle Passage.

5. Bell Work Explain the term Mercantilism. Explain the term Capitalism
Why do people in the Caribbean speak Spanish?
Define circumnavigate.
List some of the products brought by Europeans back to their home lands.

7. Bell Work
On a separate sheet of paper what do these images mean to you?

8. Assignment Who is your explorer? Who did they sail for? (Country)
Picture-
Fun Facts -- Schooling?
Who did they sail for? (Country)
What person gave them the boat or money?
What was their major accomplishment?
Map of where they went.
3 sources (Text book, 2 internet)

9. Why? Trade Items 1) Gold  Wealth
2) God  Reformation and Counter-Reformation
3) Glory  Find Exotic land
Spices, Silk, Perfume, Jade  India and China

10. Technology Advances Astrolabe or compass Better Ships Triangular Sails
Lower in water, Larger cargo holds
Triangular Sails
Can be turned to catch wind
Weapons on Ships
Canons   Enemies

11. Portuguese Explorers Henry the Navigator Vasco de Gama Pedro Cabral
Atlantic and African Trade
Find water route to Asia
Enslaved people trade
Starts a school for navigation
Vasco de Gama
First to go around Africa  India
Pedro Cabral
Claimed Brazil

12. Spanish Explorers Christopher Columbus Europe  India Sailed west
to Hispanola,
Bahamas, &
South America
what he
called “Indies”

13. Spain was focused on mercantilism…
He worked for
What country benefited for the work of Columbus?

14. Columbian Exchange

15. Amerigo Vespucci Ferdinand Magellan South America
Names Americas because realizes it isn’t part of Asia
Ferdinand Magellan
Circumnavigate World

16. Cortes & Pizarro Hernan Cortes (Spanish) Francisco Pizarro
Goal  riches and land  Mexico
Montezuma  Quetzacoatl  Gave everything
Disease Spread
Took Tenochtitlan and Aztec Empire
Francisco Pizarro
Goal  riches and land  Peru
Civil War in Peru  Atahualpa  Gave everything
Took Cuzco and Incan Empire

17. Spain Colonies & Conquest
Encomienda System
Spanish land settlements
Disease and terrible treatment
Conquest of Mexico
Hernan Cortes  Conquistador
Beat Montazuma
Conquest of Peru
Francisco Pizarro  Conquistador
Beat Atahualpa

18. English Explorers John Cabot Sir Francis Drake Henry Hudson
England  Canada
Sunk on Second Voyage
Sir Francis Drake
South around South America to California
2nd to circumnavigate world
Henry Hudson
Hudson Bay

19. Cartier: Explores and maps for the French in Canada Coronado
Travels up into the Southwest. Discovers the grand canyon and the pueblo builders