Age of exploration

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Age of exploration

Today's planning

Info 1.2 & 1.3

Checking your homework

Making groups for the PO

1.2 Age of exploration

Marco Polo

Europeans paid lots of money for Asian luxuries (such as.....?)

Prices were high because:

Silk road (dangerous and long)

Middle men

Constantinopel

Ottomans conquered Constantinople in 1453

This gave them a monopoly on the Silk Road.
Europeans became less succesfull and 

started to look for other ways to go east.

The Portugese

Prince Henry the Navigator of Portugal stimulated sailors to discover a new route to Asia. 
He wanted to take over the trade in gold, ivory and slaves.

Explorer Bartolomeo Dias was the first to reach 

the southern tip of Africa.
20th May 1498 - 1st time Vasco Da Gama reached India

Portugese trading post:

Fort Elmina

 in Ghana. 

1.3 Explorations of Columbus

Watch the film clip together. 

Read the paragraph yourself. 

What to do now?

Make duo's for the PO. 

You can also chooce to do it alone. 

Today's  planning

PO

Info 1.4 Aztec and Inca empires

Homework (check)

Work on your PO

First you do the

theoretical part of the

assignment. 

Only after that you 

can start writing the

shipsdiary.

Ruling the world

The monarcs of Spain & Portugal were fighting over the New World. 

In 1494 they signed the Treaty of Tordesillas.

- Spain could explore and colonise the West

- Portugal had the same right in the East

Treaty of Tordesillas 1494

1.4 Aztec and Inca empires

Hernan Cortez 

What to do now?

1.2	Assignment 1, 3, 5, 8, 9, 11 Or make a handwritten mindmap
1.3	Assignment 2, 5, 8, 9, 10 Or make a timeline
1.4	Assignment 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 11 Or make a handwritten summary

planning today

Work on homework (check)

Info 1.1

Assignment renaissance

What to do now?

1.3	Assignment 2, 5, 8, 9, 10 Or make a timeline
1.4	Assignment 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 11 Or make a handwritten summary
1.5	Assignment 2, 5, 8, 9, 11 Or make a handwritten mindmap

Renewed interest in the Antiquity

Around 1500 old texts from the antiquity are rediscovered. In the Italian city of Florence the renaissance started. 

Renaissance = rebirth of the antiquity.

The rediscovered texts were highly individualistic. Life on earth here and now was more important than the afterlife (hiernamaals). This meant the mentality changed. 

Changing mentality

The mentality in the middle ages was all about God. In other words memento mori, which means 'remember you'll die'. 

While the interest in the works of the antiquity grew the motto changed into carpe diem, which means......?

Next week we'll continue with this chapter

The Italian city of Florence

Florence is the centre of the Renaissance and a very wealthy city. 

The medici family became very rich by trading money. 

Wealthy upperclass families form a cultural en political elite who want to show off their wealth by buying lots of artwork and imitating the Greeks and Romans. 

Homo Universalis

In the Renaissance scientists and artists would broaden their field of work. 

Some of them we can even call homo universalis. Some possible homo universalis were Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and William Shakespeare.

What to do now?

Investigate which one of the scientists/artists was a true homo universalis.

Read carefully!

Planning today

- homework check

- Repetition chapter 1

- Start chapter 2

Marco......

Monopoly

1. Right to be the only person allowed into a country
2. Right to be the only person to trade in a region or product

Henry the Navigator

1. Spain
2. Portugal

1st time to have reached India

1. Vasco Da Gama
2. Henry the Navigator
3. Bartolomeo Dias

Spain & Portugal were fighting over power of the New World.
In 1494 they signed the .....

Spain could explore and colonise the West. Portugal had the same right in the East

1. True
2. False

What does renaissance mean?

Memento Mori

1. Early modern ages
2. Middle ages

What does carpe diem mean?
(in Dutch)

Give an example of a Homo Universalis.