Transcript Good Morning / Afternoon October 14th 2008

Good Morning / Afternoon
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October 14 2008
It’s a shortened week- Yeah!!!
This WEEK:
Announcements
Tuesday—Volleyball @ West & Hts
9th Volleyball @ Hts & West
Varsity Soccer in the North Cup—5:30
Wednesday —TESTING!!!! It’s a Four Day Week!!!!!
Find out where you will be testing next week.
Thursday—9th FB vs West
Varsity Soccer in the North Cup—5:30
Opening Night of the Play- The rise and rise of Daniel Rocket
Friday—STATE Tennis in Topeka
Varsity Football @ Ark City- Its District Play
Saturday—Finals of the North Cup
Varsity Volleyball is going to STA
October 14th
 Outcomes
Students will begin to examine why European nations sent explorers
across the ocean.
Students will describe how technology aided European Sailors
Students will identify the countries that led the way in exploration.
 To
Do List
Change the seating chart / Current Events
Pass back homework--Zheung He / Christopher Columbus
Notes—
Reflection questions
Homework
Quote of the Day 19
“There is enough in the world for everyone's
need, but not enough for everyone's greed. .”
Frank Buchanan
Exploration
 Russian
Exploration
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Why were the Russians worried about Space Travel?
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How did the Americans respond?
• 1st
• Competitive
• New Ideas, New Worlds
European Exploration
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1450-1650
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Age of Discovery
Age of Expansion
Age of Reconnaissance
Advances in geographic knowledge
European migration and control of
NA/SA
European Exploration- Trial / Error
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Order of events for exploration
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Nations had to politically centralize their power
Kings had to be stable and wealthy enough to look outside
• Why couldn’t this have happened in the Middle Ages
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Portuguese were the first to establish themselves as a
nation
Motivations for Explorers
 Gold
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God- Crusading spirit existed in Spain/Portugal
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– God – Glory
Part of the National Identity for Spain and Portugal
Shift of Focus from Muslims to Pagans
Gold & Glory-- govt sponsored voyages / exploration
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Spurred on individual and govts.
Diaz, “to serve God and His Majesty, to give light to those who
were in darkness and to grow as all men desire to do.
Vasco da Gama “Christians and spices”
Hernando Cortes, “I have come to win gold, not to plow the field
like a peasant.
Timeline for Portuguese Exploration
European exploration began for several reasons.
- knowledge of China from Marco Polo (1254-1324)
Spices, gold, exotic products
- Monopolization of trade by the Italians
- Limited access to Asian land routes
- Renaissance ideas were a driving force
All these became the push for European Expansion
Timeline for Portuguese Exploration
1415- Crusading spirit-Ports seized Ceuta in North Africa
This sparked the interest of the Portuguese King, Henry
Henry built schools, gathered scientists, cartographers
and builders- all in an attempt to improve exploration.
Portuguese began sending annual expeditions to Africa
Eventually muscled in on gold trade in Africa
1487- Bartolomew Diaz rounded the Cape of Good Hope
1497-1499 Vasco da Gama rounded Africa- returned home
1498- Portuguese begin to muscle in on Muslim trade.
1502-1520 no Moluccan spices traveled Red Sea
Portuguese carried ¼ of goods
Portuguese Exploration
Portuguese Imperialism
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1500 King Manual dispatched 13 ships that landed on the coast
of Brazil.
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Pedro Alvarez Cabral- then proceeded around the Cape to India (6)
At the point, every March ships were sent out and brought back spices
• (Black Pepper, Nutmeg, Cloves)
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Alfonso de Albuquerque crowned governor India
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1509- 1515 captured Malacca and continued to try to expand
As the Portuguese spread influence, they spread Christianity
“While Buddha came to China on white elephants, Christ was borne on
cannon balls.”
Spain’s Fortunes
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Spain was unified under Isabella and Ferdinand
They has just finished completing the Reconquista
Christopher Columbus sailed in August of 1492 and
returned March of 1993.
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Beginning of Spain’s influence on the Global Scene
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What Columbus a hero or a Villian?
Columbus- please listen
 http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.p
hp?storyId=95622629
Homework
 Read
504- 509
 Write
a paragraph explaining why
Columbus was or was not a hero.
Be ready for a quiz on Friday