RP CH1 (1)

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• Middelbare school
• havo, vwo
• Leerjaar 1,2

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CHAPTER 1. Voyages of discovery

Learning goals

•  In this paragraph you will learn why Europeans started making overseas journeys of discovery.
  
• In this paragraph you will learn how the Portuguese became active in South Asia and East Asia.
  
• In this paragraph you will learn how Columbus discovered America.
  
• In this paragraph you will learn how more Europeans joined the European expansion.
  

What do you already know about this?

Spices and other products were transported through the silk road to Europe

The spices were transported through the silk road to Europe

Why would these products be so expensive?

Why would the Europeans try to find new routes to Asia?

                                                                 The first people who started to                                                                       travel were the missionaries:                                                                      priests to spread Christianity.

Portugese to Asia

• The Portugese started with these voyages of discovery
• In Ghana, they built the fort Elmina, the first European building south of the Sahara 
• This was the start of the European expansion

Why and how?

• Why: money, power and religion
• How: increase in knowledge
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Vasco da Gama

• In 1498, the Portuguese Vasco da Gama was the first European to sail around Africa to Asia
• He reached the port city of Calicut in India.
• In India people were not Christian but believed in Hinduism.
• It did not take long until Portuguese traders arrived with war ships with cannons.
• They chased off their Arab competitors who had traded in India for a very long time.

Get to work

Read chapter 1 up to 'Spaniards to America'

Mark the important sentences

Odd one out

Pick the word that doesn't fit.

Why do Europeans want to go to Asia?

1. Money
2. Power
3. Knowledge
4. Religion

European discoverers

1. Vasco da Gama
2. Marco Polo
3. Ferdinand Magellan
4. Columbus

???

1. Fort Elmina
2. Calicut
3. Maluku
4. Lisbon

Get to work

Make assignments 1, 4, 5, 6 & 7

Done? Make some of your own version of the 'odd one out' game

Learning goals

•  In this paragraph you will learn why Europeans started making overseas journeys of discovery.
  
• In this paragraph you will learn how the Portuguese became active in South Asia and East Asia.
  
• In this paragraph you will learn how Columbus discovered America.
  
• In this paragraph you will learn how more Europeans joined the European expansion.
  

Why did Europeans start making overseas journeys of discovery?

How did the Portuguese become active in South Asia and East Asia?