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Warm-up. Copy HW Grab a all 7 pages of your exploration packet and make them pages 2-8 Please complete the first column of the three column: Why do people explore page-This is page #2. Essential Question. Why do people explore?. Enduring understanding.
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Warm-up Copy HW Grab a all 7 pages of your exploration packet and make them pages 2-8 Please complete the first column of the three column: Why do people explore page-This is page #2
Essential Question Why do people explore?
Enduring understanding • People need means and motives to explore.
Why do people explore? • Fame • Money • Curiosity • Natural Resources • Power • Land • New Products • Religious Freedom • Wars • Famine • Family • Education • Jobs
Specific reasons why Europeans began to explore. • Taxes on old trade routes • Shipping routes on the Black Sea were blocked • Continue to get silk and spices from Asia • Gain more gold and silver
What allowed people to explore? • Astrolabe • Compass • Better ships • Strong Nations (France, England, Spain, Portugal) • Competition • Maps Al-Idrisi (Arab) Ptolemy (Greek) • Printing Press • Investments Joint –Stock Companies
Poem • Please create an acrostic poem about the means (how) and motives (why) that led people to explore. • Use the word EXPLORATION • 5 minutes