Page 1
Social Studies
Unit 2 Overview: Cultures Meet
Chapter 3 – The Age of Exploration
•Lesson 1 – Exploration and Technology (BrainPOP Teaser)
•Lesson 2 – A Changing World (BrainPOP Teaser)
•Lesson 3 – Spanish Explorations
•Lesson 4 – Other Nations Explore
•Chapter 3 Review
Chapter 4 – Building the First Colonies
•Lesson 1 – The Spanish Colonies
•Lesson 2 – The Virginia Colony
•Lesson 3 – The Plymouth Colony
•Lesson 4 – The French and the Dutch
•Chapter 4 Review
Unit Review
•Unit 2 Review and Activities
Page 2
The Age of Exploration
Overview:
1) What do we already know?
2) Vocabulary
3) Drawings
4) Main Ideas
5) Review
Page 4
The Age of Exploration:
Vocabulary Part I
1) technology: scientific knowledge and tools
2) navigation: the science of planning and
following a route
3) expedition: trips taken with the goal to explore
new routes and lands
4) empire: a collection of land ruled by the nation
that conquered them.
5) entrepreneur: business men who invested
money and resources for potential gains.
Page 5
The Age of Exploration:
Vocabulary Part II
6) cost: the amount of money needed to explore.
7) benefit: reward gained
8) Reconquista: Spain was at war to push out all
Muslims from the country by converting or
removing them.
The Age of Exploration:
Vocabulary Part I
Page 6
9) isthmus: A strip of land that connects to large land
areas
10) treaty: an agreement between countries
11) grant: large sums of money given to explorers
12) conquistador: Spanish explorers/soldiers that
conquered Native American tribes and claimed land
through force
Page 7
The Age of Exploration:
Vocabulary Part I
13) reform: changes made in a group or organization (church)
14) Reformation: was a period of change in the Catholic Church
which created the Protestant religion.
15) Counter-reformation: changes that the Catholic Church made
to try to remain in power.
16) missionary: religious teachers sent by a church to
convert people.
The Age of Exploration:
Vocabulary Part I
Page 8
17) fact: a statement that can be proved
18) opinion: a statement that tells how a person feels
19) Northwest passage: a sailing route that would
travel through the northern part of North America via
rivers.
20) mutiny: is when sailors rebel against their captain.
Page 9
The Age of Exploration: Drawings
Page 10
The Age of Exploration: Drawings
Page 11
The Age of Exploration: Drawings
The Age of Exploration: Main Ideas
Page 12
1) Exploration and Technology (pg. 110-119)
•
What was the importance of the technological
improvements of navigational tools?
a) allowed explorers to venture further away from known land
marks and shipping routes.
b) It made it possible for expeditions to return back home.
c) Compass, Chronometer, Sextant, Astrolabe
•
What to know: Why did monarchs, explorers &
entrepreneurs want to explore new sea routes
and lands?
a) find a new sailing route to Asia.
b) Explorers and monarchs both benefitted from new found
wealth.
c) To claim new land
Page 13 The Age of Exploration:
2) A Changing World (pg. 120-125)
Main Ideas
•
Why did Europeans explore the Americas, and what did
they find?
a) They found land that they claimed for their monarchs.
b) They discovered the Pacific Ocean.
c) They found Native Americans
d) For the possibility of finding riches and a new route to
Asia.
•
Explorers
a) Giovanni Caboto (England): AKA: John Cabot:
explored Canada and the Eastern coast.
b) Amerigo Vespucci (French): He explored South
America near Brazil and was the first to believe that there
was a land mass between Europe & Asia.
c) Ferdinand Magellan (Spain): He sailed down the coast
of South America, was the first to sail in the Pacific and
was the first expedition to circumnavigate the world.
Page 14
The Age of Exploration: Main Ideas
3) Spanish Explorations (pg. 128-134)
•
Why did the Spanish explore and conquer large areas of the
Americas?
a) to spread the Catholic Religion c) to claim more land to increase power
b) to find gold and wealth
•
•
d) find a western route to Asia
Spanish Explorers (Conquistadors)
a) Juan Ponce de Leon (Spain): First European to explore the
U.S.
b) Hernando Cortez (Spain): He defeated the Aztecs and
started modern day Mexico City
Events
a) Counter Reformation:
The Age of Exploration: Main Ideas
Page 15
4) Other Nations Explore (pg. 138-143)
•
Why did Europeans explore North America, and what did they
find?
a)
b)
c)
•
People
a) Giovanni de Verannciolo (French):
b) Jacques Cartier (French):
Page 16
The Age of Exploration: Review
1) Summarize the main ideas:
2) Practice Book:
3) Review