Agenda 1 Outcome Check 2 Review from Last C lass 3 Expansionism and Imperialism 4 Explorers Log 1 Outcome Check Answer the questions to the best of your ability This is just a check to see your understanding of the concept of humanism ID: 277967
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ExpansionismSlide2
Agenda
1) Outcome Check
2) Review from Last
C
lass
3) Expansionism and Imperialism
4) Explorer’s LogSlide3
1) Outcome Check
Answer the questions to the best of your ability.
This is just a check to see your understanding of the concept of humanism.Slide4
2) Review from Last C
lass
What did we do last class?
Humanism
Watched a video
Thinkers and Philosophers Obituary
Computer ResearchSlide5
3) Expansionism and Imperialism
Today’s big question:
8.2.4.6
- In what ways were the Age of Discovery and the rise of imperialism expressions of an expansionist worldview?
Focus Questions:
What is expansionism?
What is imperialism?
Who was involved in the Age of Discovery?Slide6
3) What is Expansionism?
What do you think expansionism is?
Expansionism is the
actions
a
state
takes to reach the goal of increasing
its power and territory
.
What reasons do you think a country would want to expand?Slide7
3) Humanism in Expansionism
In what ways do you think humanism would influence expansionism?
Shaping your own life by using your talents.
Experimenting
and questioning
.
Using old knowledge from Greek philosophers/geographers.
Technology
from Arabs and applied them to European design
.
Living a rich life.
Writers created interest in trade and exploration.
Becoming educated.
Printing
press allowed for distribution of maps and navigation tables.
Henry
the Navigator created a school of navigation
.
Navigational tools
.Slide8
3) What is Imperialism?
What do you think imperialism is?
Imperialism
is the extension of
a country’s power
over a
territory, its
resources and
people by political, economic, or military means.
Why
would a country want to control more territory?Slide9
3) Reasons for Exploration
Why do you think countries begin to explore?
Exploring to Expand Trade
Increase in demand for luxury goods (silk, spices, etc.) led to an increase in trade.
Exploring to Expand the Gold Supply
Europe had become a trade economy and depended on gold.
Exploring to Expand Christianity
The Bible said to go out and promote the religion across the world.Slide10
3) Exploration to Expand Trade
Europeans
used the Silk Road to trade with the Far East.
Trade
was limited and did not meet the demand for goods in Europe
.
Some
countries were too far away from the East to deal directly with
them.
Dealt with Italian or Muslim traders.
Mediterranean control changed in 1453
Turks take control of Constantinople
The
flow of goods from Asia was nearly halted.
Finding direct routes from Western Europe to Asia.Slide11
3) Exploration to Expand the Gold Supply
Economy
of Europe depended on the exchange of goods and resources for
money.
There
was not enough money to go around.
Coins
were the only currency: gold and
silver.
European
mines were running out of both.Slide12
3) Exploring to Expand
Christianity
Worldviews of increasing
the followers of Christianity.
The Bible
Go
out and promote the religion across the
world
Muslim faith threat.
MissionariesSlide13
3) Age of Discovery
Beginning in the early 15
th
Century, countries began to form.
Their monarchs begin to send out explorer’s to find better routes for trade.
Long sea voyages were able to happen now because of advances in:
Ship construction
Navigation tools
Geographical information
New lands were discovered in the attempt to find a new route to Asia.Slide14Slide15
3) Age of Discovery
Silk Road – Trade through Italy (Early 1500s)
Turks take over Constantinople (1453)
Portugal sends
Bartolomeu
Dias - Cape Hope(1487)
Spain sends Christopher Columbus – New World(1492)
Treaty of
Tordesillas
- Spain and Portugal(1494)
Portugal sends Vasco da Gama to Calicut (1498)
Spain sends Ferdinand Magellan to India (1519)Slide16
3) Age of Discovery
England sends Giovanni
Cabotto
to Newfoundland (1497)
England and France warring until 1453
France sends Jacques Cartier to New World (1534)
England sends Martin Frobisher
– Northwest Passage(1560
)
England sends Francis Drake to raid Spanish holdings (1577)
France sends Samuel de Champlain - New France (1603)Slide17Slide18
3) Expansionism
In what ways were the Age of Discovery and the rise of imperialism expressions of an expansionist worldview?Slide19
4) Explorer’s Log
We will be looking at a
Primary Source
Letter from Samuel de Champlain
We will be comparing it to a
Secondary Source
Encyclopedia article for Samuel de Champlain
Read the sources and answer the questions