Exploration+&+Isolation

Exploration & Isolation

** Benchmark 1: ** The student uses a working knowledge and understanding of individuals, groups, ideas, developments, and turning points of the Global Age of Exploration (1400-1750). ** (K) examines the economic and social consequences of European exploration and expansion (e.g., rise of European power, **//** mercantilism **//**, **//** Columbian **// //** Exchange **//** , impact on indigenous people in North and South America, trans-Atlantic slave **//** trade **//** ). ** ** (K) explains the significance of the Ottoman, Safavid, and Mogul Empires (e.g., the Fall of Constantinople and the establishment of Ottoman dominance in the Balkans and Southwest Asia; The spread of **//** Shi’ism **//** in Persia, the establishment of Islamic rule in India). ** ** ▲(K) describes why East Asia withdrew into ** //** isolationalism ** //  ** during a time of European expansion (e.g., Tokugawa Shogunate, end of Great Ming Naval Expeditions) **