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7.11 Exploration, Enlightenment, & Reason

Political and Economic Change during the Age of Exploration, Enlightenment, Age of Reason

KEYWORDS: Great Voyages, World Exchange, Origins of Capitalism, Market Economy, John Locke, Montesquieu, Founding Fathers


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  • AGE OF ENLIGHTENMENT SITE
  • AGE OF EXPLORATION SITE
  • MONTESQUIEU BIO
  • JOHN LOCKE BIO
  • AGE OF ENLIGHTENMENT SITE
  • AGE OF EXPLORATION SITE
  • MONTESQUIEU BIO
  • JOHN LOCKE BIO

Tuesday, May 1, 2007

7.11 Explorations, Enlightenment, & Reason

Here you will find resources and project ideas to help you master CA State Standard 7.11!
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THE COMPLETE 7.11

  • AGE OF EXPLORATION
  • AGE OF ENLIGHTENMENT AND REASON

7.11 Students analyze political and economic change.... (Exploration, Enlightenment, and Reason).

  1. Know the great voyages of discovery, the locations of the routes, and the influence of cartography in the development of a new European worldview.
  2. Discuss the exchanges of plants, animals, technology, culture, and ideas among Europe, Africa, Asia, and the Americas in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries and the major economic and social effects on each continent.
  3. Examine the origins of modern capitalism; the influence of mercantilism and cottage industry; the elements and importance of a market economy in seventeenth-century Europe; the changing international trading and marketing patterns, including their locations on a world map; and the influence of explorers and map makers.
  4. Explain how the main ideas of the Enlightenment can be traced back to such movements as the Renaissance, the Reformation, and the Scientific Revolution and to the Greeks, Romans, and Christianity.
  5. Describe how democratic thought and institutions were influenced by Enlightenment thinkers (e.g., John Locke, Charles-Louis Montesquieu, American founders).
  6. Discuss how the principles in the Magna Carta were embodied in such documents as the English Bill of Rights and the American Declaration of Independence.

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