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1. 2º ESO Geografía e Historia Bilingüe.
Cuaderno de actividades.
The 16th century:
The Age of
discovery.
Ángel Muñoz
Lola Ballesta
Colegio “La Asunción”

2. The Age of Discovery

3. •Up to the 15th century Europeans didn´t
have direct knowledge about the world´s
geograhpy. They only had direct knowledge of
Europe, the Mediterranean region and parts
of the Middle East.
•This situation changed dramatically in that
century…

4. The cartography in the Middle Age and the limits of
the world, before the Age of discoveries…
This is the known world in the Late Middle Age. This map was created by Al Idrisi
(12th century). Could you recognize where is the Iberian Peninsula?
If you have troubles to find it, flip the map over. (dadle la vuelta al mapa)
Could you describe what continents, countries and seas were known in ths period,
According to this map? (write it in the next slide)

5. Tabula Rogeriana (source: wikipedia)
By Al Idrisis – king Roger of Sicily Our current vision of the world.
Exercise 1
This comparison might help you to understand what was known in the Middle
Age and what wasn’t.

6. AGE OF
DISCOVERIES
Exercise 2
Can you think about 5 causes
of the discoveries? Fill the
boxes with your ideas.

7. Exercise 3
Sometimes a picture is worth more than
a thousand words (1).
You are going to see some images and
then you will guess the relation between
these images and the discoveries. Please,
write your ideas in the table you will find
in the slide 10.
You can find relevant information in the
book and in your handouts (2).
(1) Una imagen vale más que mil palabras. (2) Apuntes

8. Fall of Constantinople
Image 1

9. Carabelas and Naos
Image 2
2

10. Astrolabe
Image 3

11. Compass
Image 4

12. The Catholic
Monarchs
Image 5

13. Write your ideas…
Image 1 Image 2 Image 3 Image 4 Image 5

14. The Portuguese expeditions
A series of Portuguese expeditions explored
the coast of Africa in the search for new
routes to India. Henry the Navigator of
Portugal (1394-1460), played an essential role
in promoting them. Vasco de Gama ´s
expedition reached India in 1498.

15. The Portuguese expeditions
Territories
• Coast of Africa
• Madeira, las Azores, Gulf of Guinea (1460)
Henry the Navigator
(1394-1460)

16. The Portuguese expeditions
• Bartolomé Díaz: Cape of Good Hope (1488).
• Vasco de Gama: India (1498).

17. Exercise 4
Let´s see the video on this link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DODeCJ-ZVUM
(just 00.00-4.21´) about Portuguese expeditions. Then
answer these questions:
1. What was the main objective of the expeditions?
2. Make a list of the African places mentioned.
3. What is a portolan chart? What can you see in a
medieval map?
4. What happened when the sailors cross the Equator?
Please, write your answers in the following slides.

18. 1. What was the main objective of the expeditions?
2. Make a list of the African places mentioned.

19. 3. What is a portolan chart? What can you see in a medieval map?
4. What happened when the sailors cross the Equator?

20. Columbus´ voyages
The Genoan navigator Christopher
Columbus was conviced that he could
reach Asia by sailing west

21. Exercise 5
Look at the two maps in the slides 19 and 20.
Explain the differences between them. What can you
see? When were they made?:
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22. Which are the current countries that are called as “Cippangu” and “Cathay” in this map?
(you might search on the Internet if you can’t guess)

24. • Palos de Moguer 3rd
August.
• A stay in the Canary
Islands.
• The Bahamas 12th October.
Columbus´expedition

25. Columbus´voyages

26. Columbus´voyages

27. Exercise 6
Research
Why was the new continent called America?
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28. The first voyage
around the world
Magallanes´ expedition navigated the
southern tip of South America, which called
the Strait of Magellan today. Magallanes
died in the Philippines. After that, Juan
Sebastián Elcano led the expedition which
completed ther very first voyage around the
world.

30. Exercise 7
Research
Check with an atlas. Which present-day countries did
Magallanes´and Elcano´s expedition go past?

31. Exercise 8: The political consequences of discoveries.
At the end of the 15th century, Castilla and Portugal
became the two main naval powers in Europe, and they were
about to start a war to control the Atlantic sea trade routes...
The Pope compelled them to sign a treaty… the treaty of Tordesillas

32. Planisferio de Cardinio (1502)
The oldest preserved
representation of the geographical
limits of this treaty.
And maybe some of you
Remember this tiny
Detail from the painting of
The Ambassadors, by Holbein
(1533)

33. Draw the two lines that separate the Portuguese area of influence
from the Castillian area.