[scheduled:: 2025-01-14]

Exploration: Causes and Events

• START HERE: History 2024 class plan
• Heimler's history review guide
• OpenSTAX World History from 1400
• AP World Past Exams
• NotebookLM AP World notebook
• APWorld Timeline (fiveable)

Read pages 263-273 (199-209 print) (4.2)

Topics

• monopoly
• Christopher Columbus
• isabella and ferdinand
• Prince henry the navigator
• bartholomew diaz
• vasco de gama
• state-sponsored exploration in 15th century
• territory and wealth building by states
• mercantilism
• Trading post empire
  • Portuguese wanted monopoly on spice trade

Reading/Resources

• Mercantilism (wikipedia)
• AP world 4.5 heimler
• Vasco de Gama
• Prince Henry the Navigator
• Bartholomew Diaz

Context (what else is happening around this place/time?)

Italy controls trade with the East, but Europe wants better access. They send explorers.

• Want to claim territory (and its wealth) first
• Want to spread their religions
• Want to gain in power

People

• Prince Henry the Navigator (1394-1460) became the first European monarch to sponsor seafaring expeditions, to search for an all-water route to the east as well as for African gold. Under him, Portugal began importing enslaved Africans by sea, replacing the overland slave trade.
• Bartholomew Diaz sailed around the southern tip of Africa, the Cape of Good Hope, in 1488, into waters his crew did not know. Diaz feared a mutiny if he continued pushing eastward, so he returned home.
• Vasco Da Gama sailed farther east than Diaz, landing in India in 1498, There he claimed territory as part of Portugal’s empire. The Portuguese ports in India were a key step in expanding Portugal’s trade in the Indian Ocean and with points farther east.

Media resources

• Youtube search for "monopoly"
• Youtube search for "search for new routes into asia"
• Youtube search for "Christopher Columbus"
• Youtube search for "isabella and ferdinand"
• Youtube search for "Prince henry the navigator"
• Youtube search for "bartholomew diaz"
• Youtube search for "vasco de gama"
• Youtube search for "state-sponsored exploration in 15th century"
• Youtube search for "territory and wealth building by states"
• Youtube search for "mercantilism"

Review Questions

Prompt template for notebookLM:

Please create a list of 10 multiple choice questions covering 4.2. Each question should have four possible answers. Two of the answers should be easily recognized as incorrect, one answer should be almost correct but wrong because of the consequences of the events or connections between entities described in the unit, and one answer should be fully correct. Please provide the correct answer along with explanations of why each option was either correct or incorrect.