Kick OffOctober 15, 2013Please turn in your homework (ch. 15 vocabulary and the Chapter Review, if you didn’t turn it in yesterday)

Analyze the map on page 468, and read the paragraph. Answer questions 1 and 2 in your notebook. (page 73).

Chapter 16.1Voyages of Discovery;

Conquest and Colonies

Objectives:Understand the foundation upon

which the Age of Exploration was built.

Understand the discoveries made by explorers from Portugal and Spain

Analyze what drove explorers from the rest of Europe

Foundations of ExplorationAge of Exploration driven by search for wealth, fame & glory, spreading faith (Gold, Glory, God)

Technology allowed for explorationAstrolabeCaraval

Astrolabe Used in navigation to locate latitude.

CaravelOne of the first ships used for exploration.

You play the part!1. Henry the Navigator

(471)2. Bartolomeu Dias

(471)3. Vasco de Gama (472)4. Pedro Cabral (472)5. Christopher

Columbus (473)6. Amerigo Vespucci

(474)7. Vasco Nunez de

Balboa (474)8. Ferdinand Magellan

(474)9. John Cabot (474)10.Sir Francis Drake

(474)11.Henry Hudson (474)12.Jacques Cartier

(475)13.Giovanni da

Verazzano (475)

Answer the following questions about your character…- Where are you from?- What were you trying to do?- Were you successful? If not, why?

- Is there anything unique about your journey?

Meet and greet the explorers!1. Henry the Navigator

(471)2. Bartolomeu Dias

(471)3. Vasco de Gama

(472)4. Pedro Cabral (472)5. Christopher

Columbus (473)6. Amerigo Vespucci

(474)7. Vasco Nunez de

Balboa (474)8. Ferdinand Magellan

(474)9. John Cabot (474)10.Sir Francis Drake

(474)11.Henry Hudson (474)12.Jacques Cartier

(475)13.Giovanni da

Verazzano (475)

Conquest and Colonies

ColonizationSpain wanted to expand its empire.

How do you think they did it?

America• How the Spanish

created an empire in the Americas:• Introduced the encomienda system • conquered Aztec and Inca empires• viceroys governed land

• Viceroy: officials who ruled Spain’s American empire.

Encomienda System• Encomienda System:

a Spanish colonial system in which colonists were given land and Native Americans slaves in exchange for teaching the Natives Christianity.

• It was created in order to weaken the Aztec and Incan Empires.

The Portuguese in BrazilTreaty of

Tordesillas: signed in 1494 between Spain and Portugal. Gave land west of imaginary longitude line to Spanish, east to Portuguese

French and DutchFrench settled in Canada

(New France)Animal resources (fish,

furs)Did not enslave natives

Dutch founded New Netherlands in northeastFounded New Amsterdam

(later renamed New York)More focused on colonies

elsewhere (more $$$)

English ColoniesFounded Jamestown in 1607

Pilgrims came in 1620s, fleeing religious persecution

War with French in 1754Called French and Indian WarFrench gave up Canada and

territory east of the Mississippi to British

War costly to British, caused them to increase taxes on colonists, led to resentment, eventually revolution