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Unit 2

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Lesson 1
Describe the entrepreneurial characteristics of early explorers and the technological developments that made sea exploration by latitude and longitude possible (examples: compass, sextant, astrolabe, seaworthy ships, chronometers, gunpowder).
Vocabulary 
  • navigation
  • magnetic compass
  • astrolabe
  • expedition
  • entrepreneur
  • latitude
  • longitude


Resources
What is an astrolabe?
Make your own astrolabe
Spanish Explorers 
Explorers' Maps 
Old World Map Maker 
Profiles of Explorers 
Scavenger Hunt 
Lesson 2
Explain the aims, obstacles, and accomplishments of the explorers, sponsors, and leaders of key European expeditions and the reasons Europeans chose to explore and colonize the world. 
Vocabulary 
  • cartographer
  • colony
  • reform
  • convert
  • emperor
  • circumnavigation

Resources 
Lesson 3
Trace the routes of the major land explorers of the United States, the distances traveled by explorers, and the Atlantic trade routes that linked Africa, the West Indies, the British colonies, and Europe. 
Vocabulary 
  • mission
  • trading post
  • tributary
  • slavery 

Resources

Lesson 4
Locate on maps of North and South America land claimed by SPain, France, England, Portugal, the Netherlands, Sweden, and Russia. 
Vocabulary 
  • charter
  • settlement

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