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Thursday, 09 December 2010
Thursday, 09 December 2010
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- Trace the routes of the early European explorers and document their discoveries with your own writing, images and multimedia based on your research
- How did the early explorers navigate?
- Why did the age of exploration happen in the 15th century? Why not earlier or later?
- Detail the causes and effects of scurvy, and how it was discovered and later treated
- Show the development and significance of the mariner's compass to exploration and discovery in the 15th century
- Show and describe the living conditions aboard a 15th century sailing ship
- How did the astrolabe affect the age of exploration?
- How did the recently invented printing press affect the age of exploration?
- Use specific examples to identify and describe the reasons that Spain, Portugal, France, England and the Netherlands engaged in exploration and colonization in the 15th-16th centuries
- List and describe the factors that contributed to the age of discovery
- Compare and contrast the treatment of Native peoples by Spain, France and England in the late 15th-16th centuries
- Analyze the effects of the Spanish mission system on Native peoples
- Incan religious beliefs and practices
- Aztec beliefs and practices
- Show what daily life was like for people living in Machu Picchu before Pizarro
- Research and report on the effects of early missionaries on South Pacific/Southeast Asian peoples.
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