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This Digital Interactive Notebook is designed to help you better understand Age of Exploration and Discovery in World History. It includes pages on vocabulary terms, people, and key events of these periods.
On each page you will see blue text boxes where you can type responses. Simply click in the box and begin typing to provide your response. You can also add your own text boxes by clicking on the text box icon ( ). You also will need to add images to various pages. You can do this by clicking on the “Image” icon ( ) or by going to “Insert > Image” in the menu.
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Vocabulary | Definition | Image |
Astrolabe | | |
Conquistador | | |
Middle Passage | | |
Triangular Trade | | |
Mercantilism | | |
Old World | | |
New World | | |
Exploration Illustrated Vocabulary
Directions: Research each vocabulary term below and type your own definition in the 2nd column. Then look for an image that best symbolizes it and insert it in the 3rd column.
Explorers’ Routes of Discovery
Directions: Research about each explorer included in the key then use the “Scribble” tool to draw different colored lines of the routes each took.
Key
England
Drake
Cabot
France
Cartier
Verrazzano
Portugal
Dias
Da Gama
Spain
Columbus
Magellan
Directions: Select 4 different explorers (each should be from a different country) and type their names on the front covers. Then research about each and describe their journey of exploration in the box. Finally, include a picture on each front cover that best represents what they would have seen.
European Explorer Travel Journals
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Improvements in Navigation
Directions: Following a rebirth in science and learning during the European Renaissance, new developments helped aid exploration. These included a new type of sail called a lateen sail, the astrolabe and improvements to a much older Chinese invention – the compass. After researching about each, paste in a picture of the invention and then describe what it did and how that helped European exploration.
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Lateen Sails
The Astrolabe
The Magnetic Compass
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Effect of Navigation Improvements
The Columbian Exchange
Directions: The Columbian Exchange was named after Christopher Columbus, whose 1492 voyage finally connected the Old and New Worlds for Europeans. It had a massive impact on the lives of people across the globe. First, explain what it was and the impact it had. Then, drag and drop the images below to where they were prior to the Columbian Exchange. Finally, search for and paste in some of your own images for other items for both the Old & New World.
The New World
The Old World
What was the Columbian Exchange?
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What impact did it have?
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The Triangle of Trade
Directions: The Triangle of Trade developed across the Atlantic Ocean due to the transatlantic slave trade that operated from the late 16th to early 19th centuries and connected three continents. Label each portion of the Triangle of Trade and what was sent in that direction. Below your map, describe the impact this trade had on each region.
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The Americas
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Africa
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Europe
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Examining the Middle Passage & Slave Trade
Directions: In the early 1500’s, European colonists in the Americas needed cheap labor for their plantations and farms and began using enslaved Africans. After reading and analyzing the slave trade and Middle Passage, complete the graphic organizer below with information from what you learned.
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Causes of African Slavery
The Middle Passage
Effects of African Slavery
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The Conquistadors
Directions: Conquistadors differed from other explorers in that they also attempted to conquer by force the lands they reached. After reading about Cortes, Pizarro, & Ponce de Leon, complete the graphic organizer below by explaining the accomplishments of each in their respective boxes. Then, point them at the areas they conquered and shade that area in with the “Scribble”tool. At the bottom, explain what their motivations of “Gold, God, & Glory” meant.
Hernan Cortes
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Francisco Pizarro
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Ponce de Leon
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For Glory!
For God!
For Gold!
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Effects of European Migration
Directions: As the Age of Discovery advanced, Europeans migrated to new colonies in the Americas, creating new cultural and social patterns. They also established trading posts and colonies in Africa and Asia. Explain the effects of European migration on those areas.
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Asia
Africa
The Americas
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Effects
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Timeline of the Age of Exploration
Portugal claims Brazil through the Treaty of Tordesillas.
Jacques Cartier’s 1st voyage) makes landfall at Newfoundland, Canada which he claims for France.
Francisco Pizarro executes Atahuallpa, the last Incan emperor.
Vasco da Gama sails around Africa and reaches India.
Ferdinand Magellan sets sail from Spain on a voyage that will take his ship around the world.
Bartolomeu Dias reaches the Cape of Good Hope (the southernmost tip of Africa).
Christopher Columbus’ first voyage reaches the Bahamas, Cuba, and the West Indies.
English merchants form the East India Company, which would soon dominate trade.
John Cabot lands in North America and claims the land in the name of King Henry VII of England.
Directions: After learning about the important people and events of the Age of Exploration, complete the timeline below. Drag and drop the events into the correct order and type in the year in the box along the line next to each event.
Year