God, Gold, and Glory
Objectives
- Explain the motivations for European expansion and trade
Agenda
- Warm-Up #5: Imagine you are living in Spain around 1500. You've read Marco Polo's stories about his travels to the exotic lands to the East, and seen merchants come into port carrying spices they sell for huge sums of money. You've heard tales of a new continent to the West, filled with savages who have never even heard of Christianity. Why might you want to travel to one of these far-away lands, crossing an ocean to get there?
- PowerPoint: Age of Exploration
- Why Explore?
- Trade Goods
- Commerce
- Technology
- Explorers
- Shift in Power
- Reading - 6.1: Exploration & Expansion
- Follow reading guide to take notes
- Prepare for tomorrow's quiz
