This lesson contains 15 slides, with interactive quizzes and text slides.
Lesson duration is: 45 min
Items in this lesson
Learning strategies
Homework and preparing for a test
Slide 1 - Slide
Questionnaire
Who has read all paragraphs?
Who has made all questions?
Who has checked the answers?
Who takes notes during the lessons?
Name one way to learn for the test. [Fingers please.]
Slide 2 - Slide
Learning keywords ask yourself:
Who?
What?
Why?
When?
Where?
How?
Which other keyword belongs with this person/ keyword/ event, or is opposite to it?
Can I tell about cause and effect?
Is it part of a continuity or a change?
Slide 3 - Slide
‘Silk route’
Who: Marco Polo (and a lot of merchants before and after him)
What: a route from China to the Mediterranean to trade spices, textiles (silk), gold, perfume
Why: it was seen as the only route to Asia; the lacked ships, maps and navigational instruments
When: > 1295 rediscovery
Where: Asia - Europe
How: sail accross Med. Sea, over land to China.
At the same time: crusades.
A change in trade routes after 1) getting and inventing better navigational instruments (like compass from China), building seaworthy ships and, while exploring, making maps because of 2) in 1453 the Ottomans conquer the East-Roman Empire and set high taxes on the trade.
Slide 4 - Slide
Practise for the test
Work in silence and fill in the answers.
Slide 5 - Slide
Memento Mori: 'remember that you will die'
A
The motto during the Renaissance
B
The motto during the Middle Ages
C
The motto used by explorers
D
The motto used by crusaders
Slide 6 - Quiz
Which keywords can you relate to worldview?
Worldview
Slide 7 - Mind map
Is this a primary or secondary source?
Slide 8 - Open question
What was a cause for the Europeans to search a sea route to Asia?
A
The crusades were not successful
B
Marco Polo had found a new route
C
The Ottomans had gained monopoly over the silk route
D
Henry 'the navigator' invested in explorations
Slide 9 - Quiz
Nova Zembla
Reconquista
Magellan
Aztecs
Slide 10 - Drag question
Name two other countries that started to explore the world after the Portugese and Spaniards
Slide 11 - Open question
Timeline a learning strategy
Chronology is an important part of history.
A timeline also tells you what is cause and what is effect.
You can make it even clearer by using arrows.
Make sure you use keywords, names of people and events, etcetera, on the timeline.
You must be able to explain who, what, where, why, when and how.
Slide 12 - Slide
Questions?
Slide 13 - Slide
Workbook task 1.4 or timeline
In pairs or alone work on this task to practise with sources.