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Key Concept

Europeans explored and settled overseas territories, encountering and interacting with indigenous populations.

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Motivation for Exploration

Live Review: Exploration

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Important Files

Exploration Study Guide
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Homework Assignments

Assignment 1: Motives for Exploration

• MindTap: Mapping the World
• Answer study guide questions 1-4 using:
  • Spielvogel pages 403-407
  • What Motivated the Age of Exploration?
• Additional terms 1-5
• MindTap: Marco Polo's Travels

Assignment 2: Early Exploration

• Answer study guide questions 5-6 using:
  • Spielvogel pages 407-410
  • Crash Course: Columbus, De Gama, and Zheng He
  • History vs. Christopher Columbus
• Key terms 1-2
• Additional terms 6-7
• MindTap: A Map of Early European Exploration

​Assignment 3: The Spanish Empire

• Answer study guide question 7 using:
  • Spielvogel pages 410-416
  • How Magellan Circumnavigated the Globe
• Key terms 3-7

Assignment 4: The Slave Trade

• Answer study guide question 13 using:
  • Spielvogel pages 416-419
  • The Atlantic Slave Trade: What Too Few Textbooks Told You
  • Crash Course: The Atlantic Slave Trade
• Key terms 8-9
• MindTap: Rival Explorers and the Slave Trade

​Assignment 5: The French, British, and Dutch

• Answer study guide questions 8-9 using:
  • Spielvogel pages 419-426
  • It's a New World
  • Jamestown and Plymouth Settlements
  • Crash Course: Capitalism and the Dutch East India Company

​Assignment 6: Impact of Colonialism

• Answer study guide questions 10-12 using:
  • Spielvogel pages 427-431
  • Crash Course: The Columbian Exchange
  • The Columbian Exchange (According to a Traveling Salesman)
  • Crash Course: Disease
• Key term 11
• MindTap: The Effects of European Expansion

​Assignment 7: Early Globalization

• Answer study guide questions 14-16 using:
  • Spielvogel pages 431-433
  • Mercantilism: The Economics of Absolutism
  • Mercantilism Definition for Kids
• Key terms 12-14
• Additional terms 8-11
• MindTap: A New World Economy
• MindTap: A Timeline of Exploration and Expansion
• Watch my live review session

Assignment 8: Study for Period 1 Test

• Study notes and study guides for all year
• MindTap: Chapter 14 Quiz
• MindTap: Fast Track to a 5 chapters 1-3
• Join me for a live cumulative review at 8 pm EDT by clicking the picture below!

Interesting Articles

• The First Global Empire
• What Columbus Knew
• How Columbus Day Fell Victim To Its Own Success
• 1491
• The Atlantic Slave Trade in 2 Minutes
• A Society Built on Slavery
• Did Florida Host the First Thanksgiving?
• Blackbeard's ship found off the coast of North Carolina

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Primary Sources

• Cortes' Description of Tenochtitlan - page 413
• Bartolome de las Casas, The Tears of the Indians - page 415
• A Letter to the King of Tonkin from Louis XIV - page 421
• Answer from the King of Tonkin to Louis XIV - page 421
• Images of Spices and World Trade - page 409
• Diary of a Citizen (describing the slave trade) - page 418
• Felix de Azara, Description and History of Paraguay and Rio de la Plata - page 428

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Screencast Lecture Notes

Portuguese Exploration

Colonization of the Americas

Impact of Colonization

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