Unit Title: The Age of Exploration
Course Title: 7th Social Studies
Pacing: 8 Days
Content Standards: K-12 Vertical Alignment
H.2- Understand the implications of global interactions change.
Understandings
Students will understand that…
European desire for a water route to Asia was driven by barriers (i.e. the closing of the Ottoman Empire, the African continent) and the need for new avenues of trade (i.e. sea routes).
New technology and a desire for resources allowed Europeans to explore other lands, which influenced their future development.(caravel, compass, astrolabe, map making).
Competition for Asian goods fueled exploration.
The discovery of goods in the America's contributed to the exploration and eventual colonization of the "New World."
The Prince Henry School of Navigation was responsible for recruitment of explorers that eventually led to multiple expeditions throughout the world.
Essential Questions
What barriers forced European to discover new trade routes?
What factors influenced European exploration?
What is the impact of competition for resources?
What impact did Prince Henry’s School of Navigation have on the Age of Exploration?
Knowledge
Students will know…
Motivating forces for exploration
Students will be able to…
Explain (to make known in detail, to make plain or clear)
Course Title: 7th Social Studies
Pacing: 8 Days
Content Standards: K-12 Vertical Alignment
H.2- Understand the implications of global interactions change.
- 7.H.2.3 -Explain how increased global interaction accelerates the pace of innovation in modern societies (e.g. advancements in transportation, communication networks and business practices)..
- 7.E.1.1-Explain how competition for resources affects the economic relationship among nations (e.g. colonialism, imperialism, globalization and interdependence).
- 7.G.1.2 -Explain how demographic trends (e.g. population growth and decline, push/pull factors and urbanization) lead to conflict, negotiation, and compromise in modern societies and regions
- 7.G.2.1-Construct maps, charts, and graphs to explain data about geographic phenomena (e.g. migration patterns and population and resource distribution patterns).
Understandings
Students will understand that…
European desire for a water route to Asia was driven by barriers (i.e. the closing of the Ottoman Empire, the African continent) and the need for new avenues of trade (i.e. sea routes).
New technology and a desire for resources allowed Europeans to explore other lands, which influenced their future development.(caravel, compass, astrolabe, map making).
Competition for Asian goods fueled exploration.
The discovery of goods in the America's contributed to the exploration and eventual colonization of the "New World."
The Prince Henry School of Navigation was responsible for recruitment of explorers that eventually led to multiple expeditions throughout the world.
Essential Questions
What barriers forced European to discover new trade routes?
What factors influenced European exploration?
What is the impact of competition for resources?
What impact did Prince Henry’s School of Navigation have on the Age of Exploration?
Knowledge
Students will know…
Motivating forces for exploration
- Economic—Gold, natural resources, and trade
- Religious—Spread of Christianity
- Competitions for empire and belief in superiority of own
culture
- The destruction of Constantinople caused the Ottoman Empire to close Europe’s trade route to Asia
- Explorers often lacked the funding needed for a ship, supplies, and a crew to get underway on their journeys. As a result, many turned to their respective governments which had their own desires for the exploration of new areas
- Technologies (transportation of weapons and farm tools)
- Trade
- Crops
- Land
- Competition for trade
- Differences in cultures
- Disease
- Language difference
- Portuguese sailors explored the coast of Africa.
- Vasco da Gama went around the Cape of Good Hope, 1497. He landed in India
- Sailing to the West In 1492, Christopher Columbus hoped to reach China. He thought he landed in India, so he named the native people “Indians.” Instead, he landed on continents that no one knew existed - the Americas
- Poor maps and navigational tools
- Disease/starvation
- Fear of unknown
- Lack of adequate supplies
- Exchanged goods and ideas
- Improved navigational tools and ships
- Claimed territories
Students will be able to…
Explain (to make known in detail, to make plain or clear)
- how competition for resources affects the economic relationships among nations
- the nations that had positive and negative impacts from exploration
- alternate routes that explorers could have taken during exploration
- the impact of exploration on societies
- the impact of exploring and trading for the different European nations. (Portugal, Spain, England, France, and the Netherlands)
- the reasons for exploration
- how the resources discovered through exploration changed the government structures in Europe
- the barriers Europe had in their search for a trade route to Asia
- an argument about the impact the Ottoman Empire had on Europe’s decision to find new trade routes
- the outcome of Europe’s need for a new trade route to Asia as a results of barriers and environmental and human conditions
- the impact of new technology on exploration
- the future changes that exploration will have on societies