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The age of exploration

textbook:
Holt Chapter 16
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History Alive:
Teach TCI Lesson 32:
​The Age of Exploration

history social science content standards:

7.11  Students analyze political and economic change in the sixteenth, seventeenth, and eighteenth centuries (the Age of Exploration, the Enlightenment, and the Age of Reason). 

7.11.1  Recognize important European explorations in the 1400's and 1500's, including the routes taken, and how mapping of the New World changed how the Europeans thought about the world and their place in it. 

7.11.2  Discuss the causes and effects of the Colombian Exchange in the 1400's and 1500's. 

7.11.3  The world economy went from being controlled by governments to being controlled by individual people and private businesses. 

Essential questions:

How did the Age of Exploration change the way Europeans viewed the world? 
  • What were the motives for exploration?
  • What impact did the Age of Exploration have on civilizations in the America's? ​

web resources:

PBS - World Explorers Videos
Explorers for Kids - Ducksters
Explorers (HONORS Resource) 

Famous Explorers - Videos and Links to Biographies
​Henry the Navigator - Biography
​Vasco da Gama - Video and Biography
Christopher Columbus -Video and Biography
Ferdinand Magellan - Video and Biography
​Hernan Cortes - Video and Biography
Francisco Pizarro - Video and Biography
The Columbian Exchange - soft schools
Explorers QUIZ - for fun
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10 Interesting Facts about the Colombian Exchange


video resources:

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  • Meet Mrs. Piguillem
  • World History Resources
    • 1st Semester >
      • Rome & Christendom 300-1200 CE
      • Europe After Fall of Rome >
        • Feudalism: Europe
        • Later Middle Ages
        • Black Death
      • SW Asia: Arabia & Islam
      • West African Empires
      • SOUTH ASIA: Gupta Empire, Hinduism, Buddhism
    • 2nd Semester >
      • East Asia >
        • China & Confucianism
        • Japan & Shintoism
        • Samurai Society
      • Civilizations of the Americas >
        • The Maya
        • The Aztec
        • The Inca
      • Renewal In Europe: The Impact of Ideas >
        • Renaissance
        • Reformation
        • Scientific Revolution
      • The Early Modern World >
        • The Age of Exploration
        • Enlightenment
    • World Religions & Cultural Beliefs >
      • Ancient African Beliefs
      • Buddhism
      • Christianity
      • Chinese Traditional Beliefs
      • Greek & Roman Mythology
      • Hinduism
      • Islam
      • Judaism
      • Mayan Beliefs
      • NeoConfucianism
      • Shinto (Japan)
      • Sikhism
      • Taoism
      • Viking Beliefs
  • AVID
  • Research Resources
    • Geography
    • Historical Thinking Skills
    • Links to Sources