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Motivations Behind the Age of Exploration: Factors Driving Societal Expansion

This chapter delves into the factors that motivated societies to explore unknown territories beyond their borders during the Age of Exploration. Key motivations included the pursuit of wealth through new resources, the spread of Christianity, and the desire for faster trade routes to the East. Through collaborative activities, students will identify these factors, exchange ideas with peers, and gain insight into the technological advancements in cartography that made exploration feasible. Understanding these dynamics enriches our knowledge of historical expansionism and its impacts on world cultures.

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Motivations Behind the Age of Exploration: Factors Driving Societal Expansion

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  1. Chapter 5 The Age Of Exploration

  2. Chapter 5 Focus Question • What factors might motivate a society to venture into unknown regions beyond its borders. • Think/Pair/Share activity: Create a list of all factors that you think may have been factors that motivated exploration. • Exchange your list with a partner.

  3. Vocabulary • Indigenous • caravel • missionaries • cartographers • vessel • cogs • kayak • contractor • exploration • invasion • merchants • navigation • foreigner • expansionism • circumnavigate • discovery • reposition

  4. Organizing Past and Prior Knowledge T-Chart Activity

  5. What’s happening in each hemisphere? New World Old World

  6. Focus Question:What factors led to exploration and expansionism? To find more resources to increase wealth The demand for more Luxury Resources Spread Christianity To find a faster travel route to the East Gain Territory for mother country Period of creativity.

  7. Student Focus: How did the exchange of knowledge and technology make European exploration possible? Questions to consider: Without an aerial view of a continent how could cartographers draw accurate maps? What tools or technology would cartographers need to make accurate maps for early exploration? What knowledge and skills would map makers need to produce accurate maps of the areas explored? How would the increase in the availability of information and the renewal of learning help advance early exploration?

  8. Map Comparison:

  9. Great Age of Exploration

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