Chapter 5 – The Age of Exploration



Chapter 5 – The Age of Exploration

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THE DESIRE TO EXPLORE

Why might YOU choose to set out to explore new lands? (min. 5 reasons)

A. Expanding Trade – why did trade grow?

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• The economic worldview of the time encouraged -

a) Trade With The East

• Why were spices so expensive?

• What would Europeans say were the two main problems with trade?

• What was one potential solution to both of these problems?

B. Expanding Gold Supply

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C. Expanding Christianity

• Religion remained a very powerful aspect of people’s worldview during the Renaissance.

• What did it mean to “spread Christianity”?

• Why was this important and how did European monarchs and explorers do this?

THE MEANS TO EXPLORE

A. Expanding The Known World

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Compare the 2 maps on page 115. What are the major differences? What does this reveal about the people and cultures that created these maps?

B. Expanding Navigational Technology

• What is navigation?

• Why was it important to expand navigational understanding at this time, for Europeans?

• Who was Prince Henry, and how did he “patronize” navigation and exploration?

a) Detail or draw examples of navigational technology from page 117.

Compass -

Astrolabe -

Cross-Staff -

Back-Staff –

b) Explain the development and advantage of the caravel (p. 118) -

EXPANSION

What does it mean to “circumnavigate” something?

What does it mean to have an “expansionist worldview”?

A. Exploration Begins

• Who were the four most important explorers in Europe, where were they going, and who were they representing? (map p.120)

B. Going East

• Portuguese quest for gold -

• Involvement in slave trade -

• Bartolomeu Dias –

• Vasco da Gama -

• Battle of Diu -

C. Going West

• Columbus -

• Magellan -

• For whom would this historical period be called “The Age of Discovery” and for whom would it be called “The Age of Invasion”? What is the difference in attitude and worldview? (p.124)

D. Expansionism

• How do “The Articles” (p.125) express an expansionist worldview?

Compare the image on page 125 with the image on page 104. How are these images similar and different? What do these images reveal about the worldview of the people who created them?

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