Unit 7 Study Guide: Europe Enters The Modern Age
For your upcoming final see the helpful hints below to help you study.
These hints are not meant to give you the answers to the test questions. They are meant to help you focus your studying on the most important concepts throughout the unit.
Ultimately you need to have a thorough understanding of what we've learned. You should pull from knowledge gained through the reading and work you've done and our class activities and discussions in addition to this guide. Use your best judgment when it comes to what you need to focus on to be prepared.
These hints are not meant to give you the answers to the test questions. They are meant to help you focus your studying on the most important concepts throughout the unit.
Ultimately you need to have a thorough understanding of what we've learned. You should pull from knowledge gained through the reading and work you've done and our class activities and discussions in addition to this guide. Use your best judgment when it comes to what you need to focus on to be prepared.
Lesson 32: The Age of Exploration
Review the motivations for exploration, advances that made exploration easier, the expeditions of famous explorers, and the effects of exploration.
Questions to consider- Why were Europeans interested in trade with Asia? What advances made exploration easier? What did Europeans do when they got to these "new worlds"? Which European countries were involved in expeditions, and what was their relationship to each other? What was the effect of exploration on new worlds, what was the effect or exploration on Europe? Who are the most important explorers and what did they discover?
Review the motivations for exploration, advances that made exploration easier, the expeditions of famous explorers, and the effects of exploration.
Questions to consider- Why were Europeans interested in trade with Asia? What advances made exploration easier? What did Europeans do when they got to these "new worlds"? Which European countries were involved in expeditions, and what was their relationship to each other? What was the effect of exploration on new worlds, what was the effect or exploration on Europe? Who are the most important explorers and what did they discover?
Lesson 33: The Scientific Revolution
Review the great scientists of the Scientific Revolution and their world changing ideas and discoveries.
Questions to consider- What ideas influenced the Scientific Revolution? What were the major ideas and discoveries that came out of the Scientific Revolution? Why did the Church have an issue with certain thinkers and their ideas?
Review the great scientists of the Scientific Revolution and their world changing ideas and discoveries.
Questions to consider- What ideas influenced the Scientific Revolution? What were the major ideas and discoveries that came out of the Scientific Revolution? Why did the Church have an issue with certain thinkers and their ideas?
Lesson 34: The Enlightenment
Review the great thinkers of the Enlightenment and their intellectual contributions.
Questions to consider- How was the Scientific Revolution connected to the Enlightenment? What were the major ideas that came out of the Enlightenment? How were ideas developed during the Enlightenment used in the United States? How have Enlightenment ideas influenced modern society today?
Review the great thinkers of the Enlightenment and their intellectual contributions.
Questions to consider- How was the Scientific Revolution connected to the Enlightenment? What were the major ideas that came out of the Enlightenment? How were ideas developed during the Enlightenment used in the United States? How have Enlightenment ideas influenced modern society today?