Transcript Early European Exploration Presentation and Notes

Early Explorers
Native Americans and Europeans
Early Explorers Notes – create graphic organizer of your choice:
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Major Headings and Sub-headings:
- First People in Americas (review pp. 16-19 –describe topics for
tomorrow)
- Ice Age
- Beringia
- Native Americans
- Causes of Exploration (5 bullet points)
- Major Explorers:
- Dias
- Columbus
- Magellan
- Cultural Impact of Exploration
- Impact
- Columbian Exchange
UNIT 1: EARLY NORTH AMERICAN
EXPLORATION
Key Learning: Early exploration led to the settlement of North America.
UEQ: How did early exploration impact the settlement of North
America?
Concept #1: European Exploration
LEQ: Why did Europeans begin to explore beyond their known
boundaries?
Key Terms: Beringia, migration, circumnavigate, conquistador, Northwest
Passage
Why an increase in exploration in
1400 and 1500’s?
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Better understanding of geography
Increased trade (new trade routes)
Increasing middle or merchant class who had
money to invest
Printing press (Marco Polo and Ptolemy's books
are published)
Search for wealth (“Glory, God, and Gold”)
The Renaissance - end of feudal era
New technology (Mariners compass, more
efficient ships)
Population explosion in Europe after plague
(1348 -1350)
Early Explorers
Watch the video “Early Explorers: Age of
Discovery”
While watching, pair-share notes with your
partner by writing down the info on the 15
explorers that are discussed.
– Name
– Date
– Location explored
Explorer:
Date: Location:
1. Leif Eriksson
1002
“Vinland” – east coast of Canada
2. Marco Polo
1271
New trade routes to Asia
3. Christopher Columbus
1492
Bahamas – West Indies
4. John Cabot
1493
Northwest Passage, Newfoundland
5. Amerigo Vespucci
1499
North America
6. Vasco Nunez de Balboa
1513
Panama
7. Ponce de Leon
1513
Present-day Florida – 1st in present day US
8. Hernando Cortez
1519
East Coast of Mexico – Aztec Empire
9. Ferdinand Magellan
1519
10. Giovanni de Verrazano
1524
11. Francisco Pizarro
1531
Western route to Asia – 1st crew to circumnavigate
world
East coast of US - east coast of North Carolina to
New England
Incan Empire – west coast of South America
12. Jacques Cartier
1534
Eastern Canada
13. Hernando de Soto
1539
West coast of Florida (GA, SC, NC, TN, AL, AR, LA)
14. Francisco Vasquez de
Coronado
15. Juan Rodriquez Cabrillo
1540
Arizona – New Mexico – American southwest
1542
Northwest passage – sailed up west coast of US
Seeking New Trade Routes
Dias
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In 1487 Bartholomeu Dias
explored the southernmost
part of Africa. 
• Hoped this would lead to a
new trade route to India 
• This became known as the
Cape of Good Hope. 
• In 1497 Vasco da Gama
completed journey to India
(pages 43–44)
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Christopher Columbus
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Queen Isabella of Spain sponsored
Columbus on his first voyage in
August 1492. 
• He set out with three ships to find a route
to Asia. 
• On October 12, 1492, he spotted land,
named it San Salvador, and claimed it for
Spain. 
• He did not know that he had reached the
Americas. He thought he had reached the
East Indies.
(pages 45–49)
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Columbus Crosses the
Atlantic (cont.)
Ferdinand Magellan
• sailing from Spain in 1519, found a
passage to the Pacific, the Strait of
Magellan. 
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Magellan sailed around South America and
toward Spain. 
• Magellan was killed in an island battle
along the way, but a small number of his
crew made it all the way to Spain in 1522. 
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The crew became the first to
circumnavigate the world. (only 18 men
left out of 270) Click the mouse button or press the
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(pages 45–49)
MYSTERY BOX!
• DON’T PEEK!!!
• Each team member with have 30 seconds to reach in the box to choose
and feel one item.
• Write a brief description of what your item felt like and what you think it
could be.
• Share with your team - 2 min. discussion
• Share with the class – one suggested item from each group
• Open the Box! Discover the Columbian Exchange!
Columbian Exchange
Columbian Exchange Activity:
Analyze the objects at your station and answer the
following questions for each object:
1. What is it?
2. What does it look like?
3. What does it smell like?
4. What does it feel like?
5. What can it be used for?
Review
Columbian
Exchange pg. 60 –
6. What can you make
from
it?
How
did new trade routes affect life on
7. Where does it come
from?
both sides of the Atlantic?
New foods introduced
From New World
Corn Potato Tomato Peppers
Chocolate Vanilla Tobacco
Beans Pumpkin Avocado
Peanut Pecan Cashew
Pineapple Blueberry Sunflower
Petunia Black-Eyed-Susan
Dahlia Marigold Wild Rice
From Old World
Horse Cattle Pig Sheep Chicken
Honeybee Wheat Asian-Rice Barley
Oats Soy Sugar-Cane Onion
Lettuce Okra Peach Pear
Watermelon Citrus-Fruit Banana
Olive Lilac Daffodil Tulip Daisy
Dandelion Crab Gras
COLUMBIAN EXCHANGE MENU
Old World/New World Menu Project
• Review Menu guidesheet – requirements and rubric
• You may do additional research and find other food items for your menu if
needed – make sure they are representative of foods either coming or
going across the Atlantic Ocean!
• Be creative!
Name your
own restaurant!
UNIT 1: EARLY NORTH AMERICAN
EXPLORATION
Key Learning: Early exploration led to the settlement of North America.
UEQ: How did early exploration impact the settlement of North
America?
Concept #2: Cultural Impact
LEQ: How did Europeans and Native Americans influence each other?
Key Terms: Beringia, migration, circumnavigate, conquistador, Northwest
Passage
Beringia = land bridge from Siberia to present-day Alaska now under the
water of the Bering Strait
Cultural impact:
Increased trade
 Loss of native lands
 Introduction of disease
 Some enslaved
 Christianity introduced to Natives
 Weapons
 Domesticated animals
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• Describe what is going on in this picture.
• What details do you see that make you think this?
• What questions does the picture raise for you?
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