What do you see in this picture?Write down what you think is going on

Picture Analysis: What do you see?

What You See What Can You Infer?

Draw this chart in your spiral. Does not have to

be very large. Top

of page only

Exploration FocusWrite the following sentence stem in your spiral:

My family came to Katy, Texas, because…Fill in the reason your family moved to this area.

People change locations for many reasons.Social-Desire to be with family (or to get away from)

Economic-To go to a place where you can work or gain wealth (or to leave a place where there is no work)

Political-To claim land for your country or give your country glory & fame

Religious-To have freedom to worship the way you choose and to share your beliefs with others

The Great Race

Exploration and Colonization of the World by Europe

Credits: ClipArt, ABC-Clio, Grolier Online, Britannica Online

Example: England sent people to the

American “colonies”. They still thought of themselves as

English, not American.

England was in charge and made

the rules.

Colonization is when a group of people leave their home

country and go to a new land to form a community that is still

connected to the parent nation.

Exploration is the investigation of unknown

regions.

People explore for many different reasons.1.Find wealth (Economic)

2.Find people to convert to their religion (Religious)3.To claim land for their home country (Political)

4.To become famous (Social)

The 3 G’s:

Reasons Europe

Explored and

Colonized

Draw the triangle

and boxes. Fill in the reasons

for exploration given in

the following

notes

The 3 European Countries:1.2.3.

Spain

England

France

On your paper list the 3 European countries that were competing in The Great Race.

Europe

Africa

India & China (Far East)

Where is America?

Map of the known world before Columbus discovered America

Europe

Africa

India & China (Asia)

North America

Thought they’d end up

here

Actually ended up here

South America

The Big PictureThe exploration of the

Americas after 1492 was a breathtaking

period.

But what pushed Europeans to

Explore?(Why did your family move to

Katy?)

What pushed Europeans to Explore?- Content Frame

Event What is it?Type of Reason to

Explore

Renaissance• Period of time after the

“Dark Ages” or “Middle Ages”. (The time in Europe which was marked by frequent warfare. People were surviving, not creating art or literature.)

• People of the Renaissance were not satisfied with the

status quo.

Time when people began wanting to

find and experience new foods, places

& people

by LEONARDO da Vinci

by MICHELANGELO

Social-(We’ll go into this more

later)

• Smaller areas merged with other areas to form countries. Larger countries had more power than smaller ones. Spain, France, England, Portugal, Netherlands, etc….• Kings and Queens needed $ to run

their countries.

Countries used exploration,

colonization and trade to raise money.

Rise of Nation States

Economic

• Kings controlled their people by making it illegal for them to have Bible’s that they could read. The church leadership got a lot of power from the Kings by telling the people they wouldn’t get into Heaven if they didn’t do everything they were told.

• In the 1500’s, a man named Guttenberg created a printing press that made it possible to print Bibles people could afford. Suddenly, people could read for themselves what God said about getting into Heaven and it didn’t match what they’d been told by their church leaders and the Kings. Many began to break from the Roman Catholic church so they could follow what they believed God was telling them.

Protestant Reformation

People began to decide for themselves how to worship God & they wanted to share God with

others.

• The Kings and the church leaders REALLY didn’t like losing their power over the people so they began to persecute those who were reading and teaching what the Bible said.

• They:1. Arrested them2. Broke into their homes and took all their stuff3. Refused to allow them to work4. Branded them on their foreheads and slit their noses5. AND killed them by burning them alive or shooting them!

Martin Luther

Pilgrims

Thousands were killed in France, Germany, Spain and England by Kings determined to make people

stop reading the Bible! But people kept meeting in secret and sharing

what they were learning.

Religious

• Before this, books were copied word for word by hand. Took months or years to print 1 book!

Printing Press could print

books faster/cheaper.

People read about exciting places-wanted to see

them

The first book printed was the Bible!

• Middle class could afford books. Poor people still could not read or write.

Printing Press

Political/Religious

Example of Celtic Handwritten Bible

Now go back to your Triangle

and fill in the 3 Main Reasons Europeans set out to Explore

(Also called the 3 G’s)

Wars to take back the Holy Lands from the Muslim Turks. Exposed Europeans to spices and silks. People in Europe wanted more of

these items. England, France and Spain began competing with each other trying to be the first

to find a new way to Asia

Crusades

So, where did they go first and what sent them

there?

Why were England, France, and Spain competing with each other?

• Italians controlled the trade route to the Indies.

• Silk Road-Overland route used to get to Asia from Europe. Italians controlled this route. Europeans had to pay very high prices to travel this path so they could get the products from the east.

•England, France and Spain each wanted to be

the country to find a quicker way to Asia. That

way they could control the spice trade.

Italians had a

Monopoly=No other

competitors

Write this next to your triangle in open area

Very long and dangerous route over land.

Sailing around Africa took too long and was

also dangerous

Reasons for European

Exploration and

Colonization!

GOLD/Wealth

GOD/Spread Christianity

GLORY/National Pride

3 G’s

What pushed Europeans to Explore?Event What is it? Type of Reason to

Explore

Renaissance

Time when people began wanting to find and experience

new foods, places & peopleSocial

Rise of Nation States

Countries used exploration, colonization and trade to raise

money.

Economic

Protestant Reformation

People began to decide for themselves how to worship God.

Religious

Printing PressPrinting Press could print books

faster/cheaper. Political/ Religious

Glory/National Pride=Political

Gold/Wealth=Economi

c

God/Spread Christianity=

Religious

The 3 G’s:

Reasons the

European Countries Set out to Explore

The 3 European Countries:1. England2. Spain3. France

England, France and Spain each

wanted to be the country to find a quicker way to Asia.

That way they could control

the spice trade.

Goals of the “Race”(Explorers)!Write Political, Economic, Religious next to each

sentence1. Stop having to pay the Italians for the goods from the East.

_________________________2. Beat the other countries at finding a faster route to get the goods

from the East. _____________3. Look for Gold & Jewels to get rich ___________4. Fame for you and your country ______________5. Get Foreign goods to sell and use-Spices, Silks ________6. Save the Indians souls ______________7. Adventure-Seeing new lands and people __________8. Set up a colony in the name of your King/Country. _____9. Spread Catholicism-Your religion _____________

10. Expand your Empire (Country) ______________

Goals of the “Race”(Explorers)!1. Stop having to pay the Italians for the goods from the

East. 2. Beat the other countries at finding a faster route to get

the goods from the East. 3. Look for Gold & Jewels to get rich 4. Fame for you and your country 5. Get Foreign goods to sell and use-Spices, Silks 6. Save the Indians souls7. Adventure-Seeing new lands and people 8. Set up a colony in the name of your King/Country.

9. Spread Catholicism-Your religion 10. Expand your Empire (Country)

(Economic/Political)

(Political/Economic)

(Economic)

(Political)(Economic)

(Religious)

(Political)

(Political)

(Religious)

(Political)