1. What prompted European Exploration?
Choose at least 3 issues or situations that made the Europeans want to explore the world. Write a 1 paragraph for EACH of these issues or situations in or around Europe during the 1400s explaining how they prompted overseas exploration. Please make sure each paragraph has at least FOUR full sentences, not sentence fragments.
Questions to help give you ideas:
Why would European leaders sponsor explorations?
What events were happening during this time period?
Why were commoners wanting to leave their homelands in Europe?
What inventions and tools led to easier sailing?
What routes were they trying to find?
What was the economy of these times like?
2.The Impact of Exploration
Detail three effects of exploration, giving a one paragraph explanation for each. Make sure to add if it had a positive or negative impact and why. Once again, please make sure each paragraph has at least FOUR full sentences; sentence fragments do not count as sentences.
Questions to help you build your argument:
How did this affect life in Europe and/or America?
What unexpected effects came from the Columbian exchange?
Why would this impact the entire world?
How did this impact the modern world?
Social issues faced today
Economies
Government (freedoms)
3. European Explorer
Research ONE of the explorers in the column on the left and share the following things about him:
Where was the explorer from originally? (Homeland)
What country did he explore in the name of (or what country sponsored him)?
Where did he explore?
How did his exploration help his sponsor country?
What effect did his discovery have on the area that he explored or discovered (native population, etc)?
What year(s) did he explore?
How long was his voyage? If more than one, how long did each voyage last?
What particular technologies did he use to help him?
Photo of the explorer
Explorer’s Name
Map showing starting point and areas that were explored.
4. works cited
List ALL of the resources you used
5.Organization and Neatness
Can I easily find all of your information? (Use bold lettering for section titles, normal fonts, colors that contrast with the background so I can read the information easily)
Is your project “clean” and professional?
Is the information well written, in complete paragraphs and with correct spelling and grammar?