Exploration
What continent sent explorers during the Age of Exploration?
What is Europe?
Explorers used this to teach Natives their religion.
What is the bible?
Native Americans hunting beavers constantly in order to give Europeans the fur they wanted led to this effect:
What is some areas began having less beavers to hunt?
Columbus needed to know what direction was north, so he used a ___________.
What is a compass?
This explorer sailed for England and the Netherlands, was abandoned by his crew, and discovered the Hudson River.
Who is Henry Hudson?
What is England, Spain, France, or the Netherlands?
Europeans brought disease to the Americas that killed many Natives.
What is a negative interaction between the Europeans and Natives?
The effect of this cause was that Europeans began to look for a quicker and safer way to Asia.
What is traveling around Africa to get to Asia could be long and dangerous?
There were many ___________ during the 1400-1600s that were sent out to look for new land and waterways.
What are explorers?
This explorer sailed for France, made friends with Hurons, and discovered Lake Champlain.
Who is Samuel de Champlain?
Illness caused by lack of nutrients in the body
What is scurvy?
Important resource Europeans traded guns and weapons for
What is beaver fur?
Effects of trading beaver fur
What are:
-Natives had to fight their neighbors for new hunting land
-Europeans began setting up trading posts along waterways
-Natives were able to hunt easier with the guns and weapons they received in exchange for beaver fur
The museum was filled with _____ made by explorers in the 1400s.
What are artifacts?
Skills required in explorers
What is:
-reading a map, using a compass, writing in a journal, understand weather
What continent and countries were involved in the Age of Exploration? (1 continent - 4 countries)
What is Europe - England, Spain, France, Netherlands?
Positive interaction between the Europeans and Natives
What is Natives traded beaver furs in exchange for guns and weapons with the Europeans?
How did exploring new waterways in the new world lead to Europeans setting up trading posts?
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The first people to live in North America are called _________.
What are Natives?
This explorer traveled for Spain, set sail in 1492, and led to the start of the Age of Exploration.
Reasons for exploration
What are:
- quicker water route to Asia
-spices that were only found in Asia
-gold, silver, precious stones from Asia
Negative interaction between the Europeans and Natives
What is:
-Natives were sometimes enslaved by the Europeans
-Europeans brought over unwanted disease from Europe that killed many Natives
Cause and effect relationship related to the Age of Exploration
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The ______________was a time in history when Europeans learned about new lands and waterways on earth.
What is the Age of Exploration?
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