Unit 1

Renaissance: The Origins of a Western Worldview

Activity

1. Download the document, Reading/Study Guide Unit 1: Chapter 5, Lesson 4.
   Please save your work to a file on your desktop so you will have a copy to refer back to.


2. Click on one of the links provided to download the document.
• You will then be able to view the Reading/Study Guide Unit 1: Chapter 5, Lesson 4 worksheet.




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3. Read pages 120, 121, and 122 in your textbook.
   
• Answer the following questions in your Reading/Study Guide.
  
  
• What were the Europeans trying to expand?
  
• What were the benefits of expanding?
  
• Why did Europeans get involved in the slave trade?
  
• A sentence in your textbook says that Vasco da Gama returned to Portugal "in triumph".
  What did he do that was considered triumphant?
  
• How did Portugal win the Battle of Diu when they had the smaller military force?

1. When you are finished, proceed to the next page.