Unit 5 - Exploration and Expansion

“The church says the earth is flat, but I know that it is round, for I have seen the shadow on the moon, and I have more faith in a shadow than in the church”

Ferdinand Magellan

Textbook Reading Sections

Exploration and Expansion p. 69-74, p.205-218

Primary Readings

• The Atlantic Passage p 215-216

    A Slave Trader Describes the Atlantic Passage

    The Slave Ship Brookes (image)

Secondary Readings

• Sugar Enters the Western Diet p. 206

• The Colombian Exchange p. 229-231
  
  

Outside Primary Readings

• A Defense of American Natives by Las Casas

Supportive Secondary Documents 

“The Columbian Exchange: Plants, Animals, and Disease between the Old and New Worlds”, Alfred W. Crosby, Professor Emeritus, University of Texas at Austin, National Humanities Center (CR1c)

Useful Exploration and Expansion Links

History of Exploration

Life Aboard a 16th century Spanish Ship

Elizabethan Exploration and Foreign Policy

Potential Exploration and Expansion LEQ Questions

• Explain how advances in learning and technology influenced 15th and 16th century European exploration and trade.

• Describe and analyze how overseas exploration by European states affected global trade and international relations from 1600-1715.

• Explain how economic, technological, political, and religious factors promoted European explorations from about 1450 to about 1525.

• Analyze the changes in the European economy from about 1450 to 1700 brought about by the voyages of exploration and by colonization. Give specific examples.

• Compare and contrast the European “Old Imperialism” in Africa and Asia with the European domination of the New World between 1450 and 1700.