The Dead Sea; photo courtesy C. Wayne and Dorothy Miller

• Read chapter 11 in the textbook.
• Briefly review the chapters in the textbook for Units 8-15.
• Read my notes on the Voyages of Exploration.
  
• Study the Questions to Consider and the Key Terms for the Unit.
• Post (or respond) your thoughts/ideas about this unit's reading and assignment in the Blackboard online discussion forum. Do not post your assignment there.
• Take the Final Exam.

• Listen to some further information about this unit as a mp3 file.  You can also read the information as a txt file.

• The Great Age of Exploration
• Christopher Columbus (biography)
• America Before Columbus National Geographic (Part 1)
• Columbus, de Gama, and Zheng He! 15th Century Mariners. Crash Course: World History #21
• The Columbian Exchange: Crash Course World History #23
• Discovery of the New World
• Ferdinand Magellan
• Ferdinand Magellan Voyages of Discovery - Circumnavigation Part 1/4
• For extra credit please suggest to your instructor a relevant video for this unit of the course. Send the title of the video, the url and a brief explanation of why you find the video interesting and applicable to the material that is being studied in this unit.

• Take the short 5-point quiz for chapter 11. Log into Blackboard and look under "Chapter Quizzes." You have five minutes to complete each quiz (multiple-choice questions).
• For a maximum of 25 points extra credit, after reading The Discovery of North America by Leif Ericsson, c. 1000 (from The Saga of Eric the Red, 1387), write a paragraph in which you assess whether it really matters who "discovered" America first.
• For extra credit of a maximum of 10 points, you can submit the answers to the Columbus Journal study questions.  Please write in formal, complete sentences.
• For extra credit of a maximum of 25 points, write a short paragraph in which you explain why you think it is important to study history (check these two links for more information, Historians and Why we study history).
• Suggest an assignment for use somewhere in the course.  Be creative!
• For extra credit of a maximum of ten points, write a short paragraph in which you explain what you found most interesting about your study of history in HIS 101 (or what you liked most about the course).