Grade 6 History Term 2 Summary
About this resource
Help your Grade 6 learner understand and revise Term 2 History with this comprehensive CAPS-aligned study summary focusing on European Exploration and the Impact of Trade Routes Around Africa.
The summary covers:
- Reasons Europeans began exploring
- Trade routes to Asia
- The Renaissance
- Leonardo da Vinci and Galileo Galilei
- New knowledge and inventions
- Navigation tools
- The compass, quadrant and knotted rope
- Improvements in ships and the caravel
- Portuguese exploration around Africa
- Henry the Navigator
- Bartholomew Dias and the Cape of Good Hope
- Vasco da Gama and the sea route to India
- Scurvy and challenges faced by sailors
- The Dutch East India Company (VOC)
- Jan van Riebeeck and the Cape settlement
- Life and conditions aboard VOC ships
CAPS-Aligned | 17 Pages | Study Notes | Practice Questions & Answers | Quick Exam Revision | PDF Format
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