2. The Modern Age
• The Modern Age extended from the discovery
of the Americas to the French Revolution.
• Christopher Columbus discovered America in
1492.
• The French Revolution was in 1848.
3. Modern Age Nations
• During the Modern Age kingdoms joined into
nations.
• Every nation had:
• A King
• Ministers
• Nobililty
4. Modern Age Nations
• There were lots of wars between the nations
because they wanted to look for the wealth
and the lands.
5. Advances
• The developments that allowed for the
exploration of the world were that:
• Ships and Navigation were improved.
• New maps were made.
6. New Products
• New products came from different parts of
the world:
GOLD SILVER
POTATOES
COCOA (beans) TOMATOES
7. More Developments
• Banking was created. Bankers appeared and
they kept their money. They negotiated with
it or lent it to earn interest.
• Science was developed because of inventions
such as the microscope and telescope.
8. Social Structure
• The social structure was the same in the
Modern Ages as it was in the Middle Ages but
with a very unhappy bourgeoisie.
• There were divides between the rich and the
poor. There was also conflict between
Catholics and Protestants.
10. Pirates and Bandits
• Also there were some • The pirates and bandits
people who did not follow were formed by desperate
the law. These were the peasants who were poor.
bandits and the pirates.
• They attacked people and
robbed from the rich.
11. The did not follow the law but
some people thought they were
heroes.
12. There were the usual pirates at
sea. They attacked ships returning
cargo from America.
13. • There were also Turkish • For this reason, some
pirates in the populations of the coast
Mediterranean Sea. built castles to try and
They were raiding ships defend themselves.
and attacking coastal
towns.
14. Guy Fawkes (Before)
• King Henry the VIII • When his Protestant
stopped being Catholic daughter Elizabeth
and became Protestant became Queen, she
so he could divorce his persecuted the
wife and marry Catholics in England.
someone else. (This means she treated
them very bad).
15. • When Elizabeth died, there • A few of them were very
was a new King who was fed up with this.
Catholic – James I. • So they made some drastic
plans …
• The Catholics thought the
new King would be kinder • Five men plotted to kill
to them. James I and his advisers by
blowing up the Houses of
• But he was not! Parliament (London) on the
5th of November.
• One of these men was Guy
Fawkes.
16. Guy Fawkes
• Guy Fawkes was born • He joined the Spanish
and educated in York, army as a ‘soldier of
England. fortune’ and started to
• His family were call himself Guido
Protestants, but he Fawkes
later became a Catholic. • He returned to England
in 1604.
17. November 5th 1605
• Everything was ready to
blow up the houses of
Parliment on November
5th.
• It was very important
that they killed King
James I
• Because they wanted
the next ruler to be
good to the Catholics.
18. What went wrong?
• People started to get suspicious…
• Soldiers searched the cellar and found barrels
of gunpowder.
• Guy Fawkes was arrested and taken away to
be questioned by King James himself.
• Guy Fawkes was tortured.
• After his trial he was
excecuted for being a traitor.
19. Celebrations
• One year later, on 5th November 1606,
bonfires were lit in London to celebrate that
the plot didn’t work and the King had been
saved.
• In the United Kingdom we still light bonfires
every year and have fireworks.
