Lesson
Richard Hakluyt and the Case for Undertaking Sea Voyages
This Lesson should come after students have learned about Spanish explorers such as Christopher Columbus, Hernando de Soto, and Hernan Cortes. This Lesson could come before or after the Ship Technology Lesson.
Objectives:
- Students will be able to identify the challenges and risks explorers faced while undertaking these voyages.
- Students will be able to identify and analyze the motivations of European explorers that justified these dangerous voyages.
Materials
Lesson Components
ActivityHakluyt Primary Source Packet
Primary Sources and questions to give students insight into Richard Hakluyt.
Lesson plan
75 minClick a phase to open it
Standards
Advanced Placement
- Topic 1.4 · Columbian Exchange, Spanish Exploration, and Conquest
- Theme · Geography and the Environment
- Learning Objective · Unit 1D
- Historical Development · 1.2.I.C
- Reasoning Skill · Sourcing and Situation
- Reasoning Skill · Claims and Evidence in Sources
- Reasoning Skill · Argumentation
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