2015 Key Explorers Chart Assignment
Key Explorers Chart Assignment
(Classwork and Homework Grade)
We will start in the Computer lab and you will complete on your own
Due 4B on 2/10 and 4A 2/11
Set up a chart giving information on major explorers of the period. We will be able to use this chart as a study guide/reference as we continue to learn how Europe, Asia, Africa and the Americas changed. As a result of scientific/technological growth..AKA (Scientific Revolution), and cross-cultural contacts: explorations, colonization and trade
Set your chart up using the names identified below. You will also note I have provided you with some base information that can be added to chart.
Set up chart with these variables:
Identifying: (Name) and birthplace (country)
Time Frame,
Name the Country Representing, (Patron)
COLOR CODE: your Chart (country being represented)
Spain =Red
Portugal =Green
France =Blue
England =Purple
What Looking For (God, Glory, Gold, Fame) provide brief explanation
Actual Findings and Locations of Actual Findings
Significance of finding
Contribution to knowledge that resulted from the voyage/s of exploration
Positive or Negative Impact +/- …Historians are still debating whether the early explorers should be viewed primarily as heroes or exploiters
Print out a world map of your choice. Locate and label Portugal, Spain, Nertherlands, Africa, East Indies( now Indonesia), France, North and South America, India, Philippines, Draw (in the appropriate color) the travel lines------------sailed from –sailed to for the above explorations.
Make sure you label the oceans
Answer Questions on back of map:
Into WHAT three major oceans are the great waters of the world divided?
Which ocean is the largest and which is the smallest?
What impact did European voyages of exploration have on the impact of world history?
Names
Christopher Columbus sailed from Spain; Bahamas, Hispaniola; 1492-1502
Prince Henry sailed from Portugal; West African coast, Madeira Islands; 1415
Bartholomeu Dias
sailed
(Classwork and Homework Grade)
We will start in the Computer lab and you will complete on your own
Due 4B on 2/10 and 4A 2/11
Set up a chart giving information on major explorers of the period. We will be able to use this chart as a study guide/reference as we continue to learn how Europe, Asia, Africa and the Americas changed. As a result of scientific/technological growth..AKA (Scientific Revolution), and cross-cultural contacts: explorations, colonization and trade
Set your chart up using the names identified below. You will also note I have provided you with some base information that can be added to chart.
Set up chart with these variables:
Identifying: (Name) and birthplace (country)
Time Frame,
Name the Country Representing, (Patron)
COLOR CODE: your Chart (country being represented)
Spain =Red
Portugal =Green
France =Blue
England =Purple
What Looking For (God, Glory, Gold, Fame) provide brief explanation
Actual Findings and Locations of Actual Findings
Significance of finding
Contribution to knowledge that resulted from the voyage/s of exploration
Positive or Negative Impact +/- …Historians are still debating whether the early explorers should be viewed primarily as heroes or exploiters
Print out a world map of your choice. Locate and label Portugal, Spain, Nertherlands, Africa, East Indies( now Indonesia), France, North and South America, India, Philippines, Draw (in the appropriate color) the travel lines------------sailed from –sailed to for the above explorations.
Make sure you label the oceans
Answer Questions on back of map:
Into WHAT three major oceans are the great waters of the world divided?
Which ocean is the largest and which is the smallest?
What impact did European voyages of exploration have on the impact of world history?
Names
Christopher Columbus sailed from Spain; Bahamas, Hispaniola; 1492-1502
Prince Henry sailed from Portugal; West African coast, Madeira Islands; 1415
Bartholomeu Dias
sailed