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THE AGE OF EXPLORATION

THE AGE OF EXPLORATION. Big Picture Questions – THE BRIDGE.

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THE AGE OF EXPLORATION

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  1. THE AGE OF EXPLORATION

  2. Big Picture Questions – THE BRIDGE From now on, I will introduce a new unit’s BIG PICTURE QUESTIONS with a “BRIDGE”. This will help you connect what big topics we discussed in the last unit to the ones we will discuss in the new unit. It will also help you keep track of the overall journey we’re taking in World History II this year. Do not skip over THE BRIDGE and go straight to the BPQs – IT IS VERY IMPORTANT to your overall comprehension of the history we are studying that you understand how each unit is connected to the previous one.

  3. Big Picture Questions – THE BRIDGE As we study Europe, keep the Asian empires in mind. The East had ruled the world for so long in all things (politics, science/technology, culture). How did the Ottomans, Safavids, Mughals, Ming/Qing lose their edge to the Spanish, Dutch, French, and British? Looking at the Age of Exploration is the first step in understanding this. We spent the last unit studying the Asian empires of the 14th-17th centuries. But now we will switch over to Europe, to the West, because it was during these very important centuries that dominance began to shift slowly away from the East and towards the West.

  4. Big Picture Questions – THE BRIDGE Keep in mind that our main focus for the year is modernity: what does it mean for a culture, a country, a civilization to call itself modern? For most of history, the East defined modernity. But in recent times, the West has begun to define modernity as most cultures now consider themselves as modern when they become more Western. As the West began to rise with exploration, what qualities gave its empires an edge? Are these the qualities that should define all modern nations? Is the Western way the only right way?

  5. Big Picture Questions • How does the increased exchange of ideas, people, goods, etc., affect history? How does this relate to the beginning of global convergence in the 15th Century? • How were power and wealth distributed in Europe? What were the sources of power and wealth? How did this begin to change during the 15th Century? What effect did this change have? • To what extent is technology and innovation original; to what extent is it borrowed? • What does it mean “to explore”? What kinds of societies are motivated “to explore”? How important were these motivating factors? • How did the West begin to edge out the East? What role did exploration play in the West’s rise? What role did geography/the environment play? • How did the empires of the West compare to the empires of the East?

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