Bell Ringer
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 What explorer sailed around Africa to reach India?
 What explorer is credited with sailing around the
world?
 What explorer conquered the Aztecs?
 What explorer conquered the Incas?
How do they connect?
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 Using your notes from the start of class until now
write 2-3 paragraphs how the Unit on Renaissance
and the Islamic gun powder empires connect to the
Age of Explorations.
 This is to be done individually!
 You will have 20 minutes for this assignment.
Recap
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 Ottoman Empire – Who were the leaders?
 - What was significant about the empire?
 Mughal Empire – Who were the leaders?
 - What was significant about the empire?
What made the Explorations
possible?
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Why were Europeans
looking for a sea route?
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Who was the man that
discovered America?
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Who was the explorer that
sailed the St. Lawrence River?
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New France
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 Giovanni da Verrazano – an Italian, who explored
for France.
 1524 – Sailed to America for a possible sea route to
the Pacific.
 He was unsuccessful but did discover what is today
New York Harbor.
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New France
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 1534 – Jacques Cartier reached the gulf off the
eastern coast of Canada that led to a broad river.
 Named the river St. Lawrence.
 Reached a large Island with a large hill and name it
Mount Royal (modern day Montreal)
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New France
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 1608- Samuel de Champlain sailed up St. Lawrence
river and claimed a region he called Quebec.
 As the settlement grew it became known as New
France.
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New France: A trading
Empire
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 1760 – European population of New France grew to
65,000.
 A large number of French colonist had no desire to
build or raise families.
 Settlers included – Catholic priest seeking to convert
the natives. Young, single men engaged in the fur
trade.
 Late 1500s – Hats from Beaver fur became popular in
Europe. French were less interested in occupying
territories and more into making money.
England: Jamestown
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 1606 – The Virginia Company of London obtained a
charter from Kings James to establish a colony in
America.
 3 ships and approximately 107 settlers.
 Named their colony Jamestown in honor of King James.
 Start was disastrous.
 Settlers were more interested in finding wealth than
growing crops and hunting.
 7 out of every 10 men died in the beginning of the colony.
New England
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 1620 – Pilgrims established the second English
colony.
 Plymouth, Massachusetts.
 Sought religious freedom.
 Puritans also sought religious freedom and
established the Massachusetts Bay colony.
 Did better than Jamestown due to have women and
children.
 It ensured the population would reproduce itself.
Video Questions
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 What did the new settlers see when walking up on
Jamestown?
 What saved Jamestown?
 Who brought the tobacco seeds to Jamestown?
 Where did they obtain the seeds from?
New Netherland
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 The Dutch established the Dutch East India
Company in 1602.
 Created to compete for trade in the Indian Ocean.
 1609 – Henry Hudson (English) sailed for
Netherlands.
 Searching for a northwest sea route to Asia came
across 3 water ways in the Americas.
 Hudson river, Hudson bay, and Hudson strait.
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New Netherlands
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 Dutch claimed the land along the 3 water ways.
 Established a fur trade with the Iroquois Indians.
 Built a trading post Fort Orange (modern day
Albany) and on Manhattan island.
 Dutch merchants quickly formed the Dutch West
India Company.
 1621 – Company was given permission to colonize
the area.
 To encourage settlement they welcome all- German,
French, and Scandinavian
New Netherlands
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 So ethnically diverse it was referred to as “confusion
of tongues”
 Dutch had a reputation for religious tolerance.
 - Jews, Muslims, Protestants and Catholics came to
the colony.