Why Europeans went Exploring

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Why Europeans went Exploring
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What are some of the space exploration feats that
were accomplished by the US and the USSR during
the last 40 years?

• Man on the moon
• Sputnik
• Landing on Mars
• Putting people into orbit around the earth
• Space telescope
• Space stations
• satellites

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Why has space exploration been attempted?

• Fame
• Curiosity
• Money
• New resources
• New life forms
• National pride

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Have there been any benefits?

• Satellite
• Cell phones
• Computers
• GPS
• Military
• Microwave
• Velcro

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Any unexpected costs?

• Lives of astronauts

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What are the problems with listing the benefits
and liabilities of the space program?

• a lot of the benefits are complicated and not
  connected with the space program.
• Results of efforts often take years to be
  properly appreciated.

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Draw Conclusions

• European Colleges and Universities

• Growth of Printing Establishments in Europe

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Questions from charts

1. How would you describe the growth of European
   universities and colleges in the four centuries
   before 1500?
2. What statement can you make to describe the
   growth of printing houses in Europe during the
   last three decades of the 1400s?
3. In what ways might these two developments have
   helped to start and sustain the period of
   European exploration that began in the 1400s and
   continued for the next 200 to 300 years?

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Changes that came together to form the Age of
Exploration

• 1 - Renaissance
• Rebirth in learning
• Expansion of learning, the exchange of ideas.
  Growth of universities and the invention of
  moveable type.

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• 2 rise of nation-states
• Kings took over the feudal lords
• Competition between nations for power
• Consolidation of wealth by the kings allowed them
  to sponsor voyages.

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• 3 Technological advances
• Printing press
• Caravel
• Lateen sail
• Compass
• Astrolabe

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Where was Columbus born?

• Genoa, Italy

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Who sponsored his voyage?

• Queen Isabella of Spain

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Look up Amerigo Vespucci, John Cabot and Giovanni
da Verrazano

• Where are they from and who did they sail for?

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Why did these Italians not sail for Italy?

• No King
• Italy was divided into City-states, each
  controlled by a family.
• Italians were satisfied with the over land routes
  they controlled from Asia.