4 - Exploration

Key Concept

Change - To explore how exploration changed our view on the world.

Related Concepts

Causality, Resources and Networks - How have networks developed between countries? What resources were traded? What impact did these networks create?

Global Context

Orientation in Space and Time - Exploration of how the discovery of 'new lands' changed our perspective of place.

Factual Questions: Remembering facts and topics

• Why did sailors go on voyages of exploration from Europe in the late 15th and the 16th and 17th centuries?

• Who were their sponsors and why?

• What changes had taken place during the Renaissance (and this period in general) in terms of scientific and technical innovation that enabled the voyages to be successful?

• What resources were found on the explorers journeys?

• What impact did exploration have on the country of origin and destination country?

Conceptual Questions: Analysing big ideas

• Did exploration by the Europeans cause disparities in wealth and development?

• What is the relationship between exploration and resource acquisition?

• What role does religious (and other) ideology have to play in the motivations of explorers and their patrons (sponsors)?

Debatable Questions: Evaluating perspectives and developing theories.

• Was exploration of new worlds always negative?

• Are the consequences of ideologies inevitably negative?