Unit #2: Age of exploration and global exchange

Unit Theme: The Age of Exploration and Global Exchange unit allows students to contextualize the historic importance of the Age of Exploration and its impacts on globalization. Students will understand how overseas exploration emerged, and how this exchange of culture and competition for resources influenced the development of the modern world. Students will know the main explorers, trade routes and factors motivating exploration.

Key Understandings

• The explorers during the Age of Exploration shaped the modern world in many positive and negative ways.
• The Renaissance and Scientific Revolution sparked the desire to expand current societies.
• The discovery of goods in the Americas contributed to the exploration and eventual colonization of the "New World."
• New technology and a desire for resources allowed Europeans to explore other lands, which influenced their future development.
• European powers began to compete against each other to explore the world, assert their dominance and acquire new territories.
• the barriers and conflicts that European explorers faced during the Age of Exploration.

Parent Guide: https://docs.google.com/document/d/14mMqIbe_kMfpopKsH4a8yeBdagBh1lRGywUxfjuV9bA/view