Effective note taking

1. EFFECTIVE
NOTE
TAKING
HOMEWORK FOR YOU, BY YOU 

2. OUTLINE NOTES – CH 1
Europe and the world by the 15th century
1. China: The rejection of overseas expansion
a. Invented compass, gunpowder, printing, paper money
b. Foreigners want Silks and teas
c. The Travels of Marco Polo
- Book by European merchant
- Lived in China for 20 years
- Served Kublai Khan
- Described largest and grandest city
d. Cheng Ho
- Chinese voyager
- Chips 400 feet long
- Emperor banned this type of construction after his death
2. Europe vs Islam

3. ANNOTATE YOUR OUTLINE
NOTES!
• MUST: Heading… subheading… information
• MUST: use bullets or numbers
• MIGHT: Highlights key terms
• MIGHT: doodle 5 Visual
• MIGHT: create 5 questions
• MIGHT: answer the focus question at the end
of a section

4. THE TRAVELS OF
MARCO POLO
• Book by Venetian merchant
• Lived in china 20 years (arrived in 1271)
• Served Kublai Khan
• Beijing = largest and grandest city in the world
• 1,000 cartloads of silk a day
• *** Historians use this to explain why the Ming dynasty
abandoned exploration (they were the best) – they had the
ability with compass, gunpowder, and printing
• *** Stories of silk and spices inspired European explorers
(an annotated copy belonged to Columbus)

5. PRINTING PRESS
• Invented by Johannes Gutenberg
• Allowed information to circulate
• Led to revolution in ship design and navigation
• *** leads Europe out of the “Dark Ages”

6. SUGAR PLANTATIONS
• Palestine = sugar plantations
• Operated by slave and free labor
• Driven from the holy land  Mediterranean islands
• Use Muslim, pagan, and African slaves
• *** Est origins of slavery/staple crop… but to a lesser
severity

7. TERMS FOR THE
CHAPTER
1. The Travels of Marco Polo
2. Printing Press
3. Sugar Plantations
4. Mansa Musa
5. Prince Henry
6. Slave Trade (Pre-Columbian)
7. Vasco Da Gama
8. Spanish Reconquest

8. Colonization
IDENTIFY CAUSES
HOW DID TECHNOLOGY, RELIGION, AND TRADE IMPACT
EUROPEANS’ DESIRE TO CONQUER AND COLONIZE?
Technology Religion Trade

9. Colonization
IDENTIFY CAUSES
HOW DID TECHNOLOGY, RELIGION, AND TRADE IMPACT
EUROPEANS’ DESIRE TO CONQUER AND COLONIZE?
Technology
(gave European the
ability
- Astrolabe
- Caravel sail
- Compass
- Canon
- (lose site of the
shore/assault)
Religion
(gave Europeans the desire)
- Crusades and Reconquest
= Catholic wars against
Muslim powers
- Reformation = contest
between Catholic and
Protestant powers
Trade
(gave Europeans the
desire)
- Travels of Marco
Polo  want for
silk and spices
- Mansa Musa 
desire for gold