Transcript Aim: How did the age of exploration lead to the advancement of

Aim: How did the
Age of Exploration
lead to the
advancement of
geographic
knowledge?
Do Now: Why are Spain
and Portugal in an ideal
location to explore the
new world?
Why Spain and Portugal?
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Atlantic Coastline
Peninsula
Need for new products/goods
Desire for wealth
Vocabulary
1. Triangular Trade: goods and people
moving from Europe to Africa to the
Americas.
2. Cultural Diffusion: The exchange of
ideas, customs, goods, and
technologies among cultures.
3. Columbian Exchange: Global exchange
of people, plants, animals, ideas, and
technology that began in the 1400s
4. Mercantilism: the policy of building a
nation's wealth by exporting more
goods than it imports.
Voyage of
Christopher Columbus
Close Reading
1. Highlight/underline important information in
the text.
2. Left margin – summarize what each
paragraph was about (main ideas).
3. Right margin – write any questions, opinions,
personal thoughts that you have about each
paragraph.
Proper Close Read Format
1) Read the questions.
2) Underline important words within the questions.
3) Read the text/document.
4) Underline important phrases or words.
5) Circle all words you are unfamiliar with.
6) In the left hand margin, write annotations
regarding important ideas in the passage
7) In the right hand margin, write any questions,
personal reactions or opinions.
Activity
On your own…
Close read The Age of Exploration
Answer questions 1 – 9
As a class, we will review the answers
Activity #2
On your own…
– Read The Columbian Exchange
– Answer questions 10 – 11
Summary
• How did the Age of Exploration lead to the
advancement of geographic knowledge?