Exploring Concepts

A.

Historical Fact

Reason

1. Knowledge about the world grew

Maps, Travelers’ tales

2. Portuguese exploration became easier

Compass, better transportation, Longitude and latitude on maps

3. Spanish mistreated natives of central and south America

Killed with disease and wanted gold

4. Christianity spread

Missionaries and Muslims

5. Portuguese sugar plantations

High demand, grew the sugar in cheap places, and used slaves

B. False statements

  1. People began mapping the coast, developing an accurate mapping system
  2. Vasco Da Gama Went To India in 1498
  3. Ptolemy’s map was of great use to map makers because it was accurate
  4. A lot of Europeans wanted to buy goods from the east during the 1200s and 1300s
  5. Obviously not, Venice and Genoa took large parts in trade, being on opposite sides of italy
  6. Jesuit missionaries were interested in learning about the chinese before they tried to convert them
  7. Prince henry of portugal was nicknamed ‘Henry the Navigator’ self-explanatory
  8. Spain had colonies in south and central america
  9. France, Portugal, England, and Spain all explored the americas

Using Critical thinking

  1. I believe that space exploration is very valuable, we learn about aerodynamics, science, and a lot of other import aspects of the universe necessary for the advance of current technologies.
  2. Explorers apply that saying by not sailing in dangerous areas, not repeating wars or conflicts, and writing everything down. Today we use it with some of the same things, learning from mistakes, like the Titanic, World War II, and the shuttle challenger. These all were mistakes in history that hopefully we learned enough from to avoid future repeats.
  3. Christopher Columbus was willing to take risks, he had a lot of common sense, and always persevering. Henry had a lot of the same things, he was always driving for more exploration of the seas, and just like Columbus he had a lot of common sense. I could use all of those in my future, because I would like to become a pilot in the National Guard later in my life.
  4. I would like to live in the age of exploration with the adventure and opportunities to see the world fresh with no pollution, no freeways, everything pure. The other side would be the dangers in that time and I would always be looking behind myself and be afraid.