Name: _______________________ DUE DATE: ___________ CLASS: _____

AGE OF EXPLORATION
PASSPORT TO EXPLORATION
Directions: Complete the following pages through the course of this unit. You will get points for completion
and quality. These pages will help you with your project at the end of the unit.

Exploration Motives & Basics Notes

 Explorer Basic Profiles

Explorer Nation they Details of voyages & Ranking of

Represent accomplishments Importance
[Opinion]

Bartolomeu Dias

Prince Henry the

Navigator

Vasco da Gama

Christopher
Columbus

Ferdinand Magellan

Amerigo Vespucci

Hernan Cortez

Francisco Pizarro

Juan Ponce de Leon

Francisco Coronado

Jacques Cartier

Samuel de
Champlain

Jacques Marquette &

Louis Joliet

Sieur de La Salle

Zheng He

**** Which explorer is the most important to history and why?

 Invention Inventory
Record basic information about important inventions or innovations that made exploration of the world possible

Invention/Innovation Sketch Purpose/Details

Slave Trade & Forced Labor

NOTES:
 Consequences

Slave Trade Encomienda System

1. Is there anything good that has come from the slave trade or forced labor systems in Latin America?
(Use details to explain yourself in COMPLETE SENTENCES)

2. Explain why Europeans used coerced labor systems and slaves in the New World.

3. How would the New World have been affected had the slave trade not existed? What would our society
be like without the slave trade?
 Mesoamerican Civilizations
Put and X in the box for each civilization if they participate in the following activities
Aztec Incas Maya NOTES From Slides
Human Sacrifice
Aqueducts
Calendars
Social Hierarchy
Terrace Farming
Written Language
North America
South America
Chinampas
Strong Central
Governments
Conquered by the
Spanish
Advanced Math
Unique farming
techniques
Made up of city states
Rulers viewed as gods
Tax systems
Formed Alliances
Used Military for
expansion
Created extensive
Roads
Used Astronomy

1. Pick ONE of three Mesoamerican civilizations and explain their society structure, their beliefs,
and how their civilization fell.

2. If you had to spare ONE of the three civilizations from Mesoamerica from their fates, whom
would it be and why? Why should they get a second chance?
 An Empire Comparison

Below fill in notes on how the following countries created, maintained and expanded their empires. Then
answer the question that follows in COMPLETE SENTENCES

SPAIN PORTUGAL BRITISH DUTCH FRANCE

Where do
they
expand?

Methods?

Results

1. What were the ECONOMIC motives that drove these empires to new lands?

2. What were the SOCIAL motives that drove them to build new empires?

3. What is the most important SHORT TERM consequence of the expansion of these empires?

4. What is the most important LONG TERM consequence of the expansion of these empires?
 CARTOGRAPHY CHALLENGE
Complete the following 2 maps. You will need to be ORGANIZED and neat.

Map 1
Routes & Empires

*Routes for explorers from explorer profiles

*Shade the following empires according to where they take over
- British -Aztecs
- French -Incas
- Portuguese -Mayans
- Spanish
- Dutch

● Include a KEY
● Include a Compass Rose

Map 2
Goods Exchanged

● Triangular Trade route- clearly identify the 3 legs

● @ least 10 goods traded. Goods need to be located where they originate with arrows indicating the
direction across the globe they travel
● Include a KEY
● Include a Compass Rose
Critical Thinking Questions:
1. Is Columbus a hero or a villain; or something else entirely? Explain.

2. When does the bad that a person does outweigh and overshadow the good? Use one of the
explorers (Not Columbus… you already passed judgement on him) we have learned about to
explain your rationale.

3. What is the most important result of the Columbian Exchange?

4. Are any of the techniques used by these explorers and nations that you think will be used again
in the next Age of Exploration? (Yes… I am asking if we were to explore and colonize outer
space will we make the same mistakes? Will we be different? Explain)
 Age of Exploration Project Research Page

Record the research YOU and your group complete for your project on this page. Include the main websites
that you use to research your explorer and their nation.