FINISH YOUR PROJECT!

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FINISH YOUR PROJECT!

• You will have 7 minutes to complete your
  annotated diagram as a group.
• Project must be drawn, colored, annotated
• Keep in mind these will be displayed in the
  hallway!!

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Journal Thought Questions
Respond to the following questions in your
Interactive Notebook. (left page)
1. Where would you go if you could visit any
place in the world? Why?
2. How would you raise money for your trip?
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3. Who would you take with you? Do you need
people with special skills?
4. What problems might you encounter?
5. What emotions would you experience during
your voyage?
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6. What items would you bring back?
7. In what ways would your trip be rewarding to
you?
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Do you realize that we are no different than the
explorers who sailed the world during the Age of
Exploration?
We may dress differently,
use different transportation,
and have improved technology.
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However, history is made by.
people
who experience the same emotions .
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The emotions, dreams, and ambitions of people are
the same no matter when we may have lived.
Our surroundings are just different.
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So you see, since we are human and the explorers
were human we are not so different. Keep this
idea in mind as we study exploration, or any part
of history for that matter. We are related to
people in history. We just live in the present.
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2-column NOTES ON THE RIGHT PAGE in
notebookCruisin the World

• The world is forever changed.

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Lets look at how the Age of Exploration began.
In order to understand how important exploration
was to the world, we need to go back to a time
when exploration was of little importance----
The Middle Ages
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During the Middle Ages (500-1350), life was hard
and people were struggling just to survive.
There was constant threat from outside invaders.
Food was scarce.
Disease was rampant.
These notes go in the RIGHT column
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People spent much of their time and energy just
trying to survive. (There was little leisure time
to be interested in the outside world, much less
time to explore it.)
Eventually, a social and political system
developed that helped to bring stability and
peace to Europe.
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Feudalism
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Feudalism was a system of loyalty and protection
in the Middle Ages.
King
Lords
Knights
Serfs
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Everyone was loyal to the king because he
provided a place to live and knights for
protection.
However, the king needed his subjects below him
for his survival, too. He was even loyal to the
serfs, for they provided food.
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This system of loyalty and protection called
feudalism worked from...
Feudal Society
King
Lords
Knights
Serfs
top to bottom
bottom to top
and
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Eventually, life became somewhat easier and
people were not so afraid to leave their feudal
manors.
In 1095 Pope Urban II called on all Christians to
leave their homes and defend their faith by
joining the Crusades.
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The Crusades
The Crusades were a series of wars fought between
Christians and Muslims from the 1090s-1270s over
control of the Holy Land.
The Holy Land
The Middle East
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The Crusades were important because...
Asia
Europeans ventured to Asia for the first time.
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Effects of the Crusades
Europeans were introduced to new foods and
products.
There was a renewed interest in trade.
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People came into contact with others outside of
their feudal manors.

Ideas and learning became more widespread.
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Europe was on the verge of a great rebirth of
cultural borrowing known as the
Renaissance
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Renaissance (1400-1600) actually means
rebirth. It was a rebirth of ideas in art,
religion, science, and learning that had
flourished in ancient Greek and Roman times.
Strong European nations emerged during this time
period.
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People did not have to struggle as much to
survive during the Renaissance. They had more
leisure time. Some very famous figures used that
leisure time to create and invent wonderful
things.
printed
Gutenberg
books.
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Michelangelo
painted
and sculpted.
magnified
Galileo
the heavens.
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Shakespeare
wrote.
Leonardo
invented
and painted
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The height of European exploration occurred
during the Renaissance.
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The credited discovery of the New World occurred
during the Renaissance.
However, the New World was discovered even before
the Age of Exploration.
There were actually three important discoveries
of America.
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First Discovery of America

• Native Americans migrated across the Bering
  Strait on a land bridge from Asia (as early as
  70,000 years ago.)

• The earliest NA built mounds across the E. ½ of
  the U.S. over 3,000 years ago.

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Leif Ericsson and the Vikings landed in far North
America in about 1,000 A.D.
Second Discovery of America
They named the land Vinland because of the
abundance of wild grapes.
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• In 1492 Columbus discovered the New World.
• Columbus thought he was in India, but actually
  he was in the Carribean
• He didn't set foot on N. America, but his
  discovery started Age of Exploration.

Third Discovery of America
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So what would make these brave individuals leave
their homes for parts unknown? Think about your
imagined voyage when we started this activity.
Why did you go on your voyage? Are some of the
reasons the same as what weve seen here?
We have a lot more in common with people in
history than you might think.