The Age of Exploration

Students get their first taste of the Age of Exploration through an engaging video about chocolate. Then, they explore facts about the Age of Exploration through the lives and voyages of great explorers. Next, they explain the Columbian Exchange. Finally, they connect the Age of Exploration to explorations in today’s world.

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Overview

In this experience, students get their first taste of the Age of Exploration through an engaging video about chocolate. Then, they explore facts about the Age of Exploration through the lives and voyages of great explorers. Next, they explain the Columbian Exchange. Finally, they connect the Age of Exploration to explorations in today’s world.

Objectives

  • Describe the social, political, and economic changes that contributed to the Age of Exploration.
  • Analyze the impact of trade, travel, and technology in the 1400s in Europe.
  • Identify significant explorers and explorations from Europe to Asia, Africa, and the Americas.


Beginning in the late 1400s, European navigators began exploring other continents. This was possibly the single most earth-shaking turn of events in world history. You will learn it in new detail in this experience.

Objectives

  • Describe the social, political, and economic changes that contributed to the Age of Exploration.
  • Analyze the impact of trade, travel, and technology in the 1400s in Europe.
  • Identify significant explorers and explorations from Europe to Asia, Africa, and the Americas.


painting of a seated man commanding a kneeling man

A Maya Lord Forbids an Individual to Touch a Container of Chocolate


Do you like chocolate? If so, you have benefited from the Age of Exploration in at least one way. To find out the connection between chocolate and the European explorers, watch The History of Chocolate from the beginning to 2:13. 


You’ve learned about how chocolate spread throughout the world. What other effects do you think the exploration of a whole new hemisphere would have had, both on the Old and the New Hemispheres? Write your predictions.

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The Complete List of Learning Experiences in An Era of Revolution Unit.

Latin American Revolutions

The American Revolution

The Gunpowder Empires

The Enlightenment

The French Revolution

The Columbian Exchange

The Transatlantic Slave Trade

Scientific Revolution

Age of Exploration

The Rise of the Modern Nation-State

The Enlightenment and Democracy

Emerging Economic Systems
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