6.2

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• Middelbare school
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• Leerjaar 1

Today's lesson

• Recap of the previous lesson. 
• Homework check
• Time to work.
• Explanation of 6.2.

Explain this huge spike.

What language do they speak in Brazil?

Columbus

• The Portugese earned a lot of money.
• Christopher Columbus was an Italian merchant. He had a plan to go to India, but not through the east but through the west.
• No one wanted to give him money exept King Ferdinand II van Aragon of Spain.

He "discovered" America, but he first thought he was in India. 

Homework check 

• Ch6.1  exercise 4 till 10
• pay attention to each other.
• do you have a different aswer? Just ask, sometimes there's more than one correct answer.
• correct your answer.

Lesson objectives

• You can explain why the Europeans were so interested in America.
• You can tell whet the consequences the explorations had for people in America. 

1492

• When Colubus discoverd central America he called the natives "Indians". 
• Most tribes were hunter gatherers. There were some exceptions. 
• Two tribes lived in large cities and had an higly developed society.
• These tribes were called the Aztecs and the Incas. 

Gold

• The Aztecs and Inca's used a lot of gold in their artwork. 
• When the Spanish found out about all the gold they went on to take it for themselfs.
• The soldiers who tried to conquer Central America were called conquistadores.  

Conquistadores 

Hernan Cortés.

• The Aztecs first thought the Spanish were gods.
• Cortés first became "friends" with the Aztecs.
• When they opened their cities the Spanish wiped them out using their modern weapons.

Francisco Pizarro

• He also wanted to get the gold of the Inca's.
• He tricked the Incan emperor, and captured him.
• After collecting the ransom, Pizarro killed the emperor. 

Mass murder

• Not just the iron swords and guns killed a lot of Indians.
• The Spanish brought disease with them.
• Around 80% of the Aztecs died of smallpox.

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Go to work

• Read 6.2.
• Do exercise 1 till 9 on page 180 to 182,  in pairs. You can quietly discus with the person next to you