Explorers to the Americas Sponge Describe the Renaissance from 7 th grade Provide your own definition of the term Technology Sponge What three goals did each Explorers have Identify one piece of Technology that may have been used during exploration ID: 764644
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Explorers to the Americas
Sponge Describe the Renaissance from 7 th grade. Provide your own definition of the term Technology.
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?
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.
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.
Bell Work On a separate sheet of paper what do these images mean to you?
Assignment Who is your explorer? 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)
Why? Trade Items 1) Gold Wealth 2) God Reformation and Counter-Reformation 3) Glory Find Exotic land Spices, Silk, Perfume, Jade India and China
Technology Advances Astrolabe or compass Better Ships Lower in water, Larger cargo holds Triangular Sails Can be turned to catch wind Weapons on Ships Canons Enemies
Portuguese Explorers Henry the Navigator 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
Spanish Explorers Christopher Columbus Europe India Sailed west t o Hispanola , Bahamas, & South America what he called “Indies”
Spain was focused on mercantilism… He worked for What country benefited for the work of Columbus?
Columb ian Exchange
Amerigo Vespucci South America Names Americas because realizes it isn’t part of Asia Ferdinand Magellan Circumnavigate World
Cortes & Pizarro Hernan Cortes (Spanish) 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 Disease Spread Took Cuzco and Incan Empire
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
English Explorers John Cabot England Canada Sunk on Second Voyage Sir Francis Drake South around South America to California 2 nd to circumnavigate world Henry Hudson Hudson Bay
Cartier: Explores and maps for the French in Canada Coronado Travels up into the Southwest. Discovers the grand canyon and the pueblo builders