1. You will need your device today!
Vocab/Tests
You will need your device today!

2. Warm Up
On your KIM Sheet (coming around now) list the following words.
Just list them!  We will take time in class to look up their meaning's one at a time.
Beringia
New World
Old World
Northwest Passage
Conquistador
Columbian Exchange
Mercantilism
Triangular Trade

3. Announcements
Today we will be going over some new vocabulary for our upcoming unit.
The guiding question for this unit will be: Why did Europeans colonize North America/Africa and not the other way around?
To answer this we will look at:
Native American Cultures
African Culture
European motivations for exploration
Early attempts at colonizing America
Some of you will be getting your tests back today.  In order to do any corrections you will need to:
Complete the study guide
Attend a REACH reteaching session
Complete a test reflection sheet
Make it to a Friday Night School session to complete your corrections.

4. Beringia
Using your device, textbook, or dictionary, look up the word Beringia
Create a memory clue or use the word in a sentence
Definition:  A land mass which connected North America (Alaska) to Asia (Russia) during the Ice Age

5. New World
Using your device, textbook, or dictionary, look up the term New World 
Create a memory clue or use the word in a sentence  
Definition:  A phrase which is typically used in reference to North and South America.  "New" because the Europeans were just discovering it.
This is a map printed in 1540 depicting what was then understood to be North America.  Most notably it includes a mythical sea which cuts North America in half. This "sea", named after it's supposed discoverer Giovanni da Verrazano, was likely either the Chesapeake Bay or perhaps the Hudson River.

6. Old World
Using your device, textbook, or dictionary, look up the term Old World
Create a memory clue or use the word in a sentence   
Definition:  A phrase which is typically used in reference to Europe and Asia.  "Old" because the Europeans already knew about it.

7. NorthWest Passage
Using your device, textbook, or dictionary, look up the term Northwest Passage
Create a memory clue or use the word in a sentence 
Definition:  A sea route which, supposedly, could go around North America by travelling through northern bodies of water.

8. Conquistador
Using your device, textbook, or dictionary, look up the word Conquistador
Create a memory clue or use the word in a sentence 
Definition:  A Spanish explorer/mercenary who came to North America looking for fame and gold.

9. Columbian Exchange
Using your device, textbook, or dictionary, look up the term Columbian Exchange
Create a memory clue or use the word in a sentence  
Definition:  A transfer of goods, ideas, and creatures between the Old and New Worlds cause by European explorers.

10. Mercantilism
Using your device, textbook, or dictionary, look up the term Mercantilism 
Create a memory clue or use the word in a sentence   
Definition:  The economic idea that wealth equaled power and that nations should be self sufficient.

11. Triangular Trade
Using your device, textbook, or dictionary, look up the term Triangular Trade
Create a memory clue or use the word in a sentence    
Definition:  The economic system, based on mercantilism, during the 17th and 18th century which Europeans used to make their nations wealthy