Learning Goal 5: Describe how European exploration
impacted political control of territories (colonialism) and
impacted the diffusion of products and ideas (Columbian
Exchange).
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CRITERIA FOR SUCCESS:
HOW WAS THE POLITICAL CONTROL
OF OVERSEAS TERRITORIES CHANGED
DUE TO EUROPEAN CONTROL?
HOW DID THE SPREAD OF WESTERN
CULTURE (EUROPEAN CULTURE)
OCCUR IN THE AMERICAS AND
AFRICA?
THE AGE OF
EXPLORATION:
INCREASING
CONNECTIVITY
Colonialism, Imperialism and the Columbian Exchange:
Increasing Human Interaction
Read the Paragraph:
There were many reasons for the European Age of Exploration. A spirit of
inquiry encouraged by the Renaissance and the conquest of the Byzantine
Empire by the Ottoman Turks in 1453 which temporarily cut Europe off from
trade with East Asia encouraged Europeans to search for new trade routes to
Asia. In addition, monarchs created incentives for explorers to find all-water
passages to Asia. Believing that by controlling trade with Asia a nation became
powerful, monarchs invested time and money in exploration. Ever since the
Crusades and Marco Polo’s reports of Asian delicacies, European interest in
Asian goods like spices, perfumes, and silks had greatly increased.
Of course, better navigation skills and instruments, like the compass and the
moveable rudder, allowed Europeans to sail farther than ever before.
Finally, Christian rulers in Europe wanted to spread their religion through
overseas exploration. All of these motives led to an explosion of exploration.
CAUSES OF THE AGE OF
EXPLORATION
Using the paragraph on the previous slide…
Write the causes of the Age of
Exploration in your ISN
GOD, GOLD & GLORY
USING THE INTERNET,
DEFINE COLONIALISM &
IMPERIALISM
In your ISN then:
How do these 2 terms differ?
http://www.cssforum.com.pk/css-optional-subjects/group-f/internationalrelations/48541-difference-between-imperialism-colonialism.html
Look at the definitions of 4 & 5! Do not forget these definitions. You will use them later in this
lesson.
THE COLUMBIAN
EXCHANGE -PRODUCTS
 Pre-AP Instructions:
• Click on the link below and using the information from the
article, document the flow of products from the Columbian
Exchange on your map.
 http://www.learnnc.org/lp/editions/nchist-twoworlds/1866
 Academic Instructions:
• Click on the link below and using the information from the
article, document the flow of products from the Columbian
Exchange on your map.
 http://suite101.com/a/columbianexchange-a1673
THE COLUMBIAN
EXCHANGE -CULTURE
 Using the Internet:
 Define Miscegenation in your ISN
 Watch the video
 On your map, show the cultural diffusion
from Europe to the Americas (culturally,
Europe contributed what to the Americas)?
 Infer: Which group of people do you think
are at the top of the cultural, political and
economic spectrum during this period and after:
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Europeans or the native peoples? Why do
you think this?
• Click on the link below
and start the video at
3:15 minutes
• http://www.youtube.com/
watch?v=FPqCiPuvICE
ANSWER EACH IN YOUR ISN:
FROM THE AMERICAS TO AFRICA
 Using the Internet, Define the Triangle Trade. Look at
your map of the Columbian Exchange and infer:
 How did the introduction of European products and
diseases in the Americas bring about the Triangle Trade?
SUMMARY
(IN YOUR ISN)
 Spatial Diffusion-Columbian Exchange
• Effects on Europe
• New agricultural products introduced, which led to a
population increase and increasing political European
control of the Americas territory
• Effects on Latin America
• Miscegenation, slavery introduced, native population
decreased, colonization, consolidation of land into the
control of large European landowners
ON MY WEBSITE:
Open the Word Document: African Societies & Slavery
Read the article, then answer in your ISN:
Infer: How did the existence of the African slave trade influence
the ease with which Europeans were able to take over Africa?
Africa
QUESTION: ANSWER IN
YOUR ISN
Looking at the maps on the previous slide, what geographic,
cultural and political problems might arise because of the
forced creation of 50 new African nations?
WRITE IN YOUR ISN
 Due to the Age of Exploration,
there is a shift in trade patterns.
• Raw materials to Europe
from the Americas which
fuels the coming Industrial
period
• Manufactured goods to
Africa
• Slaves from Africa to the http://www.eduplace.com/kids/socsci/books/applications/imaps/maps/g
5s_u3/
Americas to work
on the link above & click on each arrow to see how trade
plantations, mines, etc. to Click
patterns developed!
produce raw materials
SUMMARY (IN YOUR ISN)
 Spatial Diffusion-Columbian Exchange & Triangle
Trade
• Effects on Africa
• Massive forced out migration
• Rise of the West African coastal trade kingdoms
• Slavery
• Demographic population gap between genders
• Shift in trade patterns
ESSENTIAL QUESTIONS:
TURN IN
 How did The Age of Exploration change the world spatially
(PECS)?
 How was Africa’s experience different than the Americas
because of European exploration (Colonialism vs. Imperialism)?
 Using the Demographic Transition Model: Show how
population changed in the Americas, Europe & Africa because of
the Columbian Exchange (Color coordinate the Americas,
Europe & Africa).