Motivations for Exploration
Europeans wanting to explore to find valuable resources is an example of a _______ factor
PULL
Which explorer claimed Canada for France?
Jacques Cartier
Martin Frobisher thought he found gold in the Arctic, but he actually found this instead:
Iron pyrite (fool's gold)
Today, the Northwest Passage can be sailed
TRUE (but only during the summer, and it still remains dangerous)
In which year did Sidney Crosby win his first Stanley Cup?
2009
Why did Europeans want to find an alternate route to Asia?
The land route was long and unsafe
Which explorer established the first permanent European settlement in Canada?
Samuel de Champlain
Many British explorers tried and failed to find this hypothetical trade route to Asia:
The Northwest Passage
Before European contact, there was no trading in North America
FALSE
The PWHL (Professional Women's Hockey League) was founded in this year:
2023
Europeans sailed across the _______ Ocean to try to find the ____________ Passage
ATLANTIC, NORTHWEST
The king of France often _______________ explorers to go to Canada, agreeing to pay for their ship, crew, supplies, etc
SPONSORED
This explorer led the final expedition to try to find the Northwest Passage, with his two ships becoming trapped in the ice and eventually sinking:
John Franklin
Broadly speaking, finding the Northwest Passage was a shared goal amongst all European explorers.
TRUE
What is an archipelago?
A group of islands
European nations like Britain wanted to take control of land in other parts of the world and use it for their benefit. This is an example of the policy of:
Imperialism
Many French exploration trips included people called missionaries, whose goal was to spread ___________ to the new people they encountered
RELIGION (specifically, Catholicism)
Alexander Mackenzie reached this modern-day province by land:
British Columbia
The three Cs of exploration are curiosity, Christianity, and commensalism
FALSE
Which movie character said this line?
"I don't like sand. It's coarse and rough, and it gets everywhere".
Anakin Skywalker
Ethnocentrism is:
The belief that you/your culture and people is superior to others (ie, Europeans thinking that their way of life was better than Indigenous peoples')
Cartier raised a cross on the Gaspe Peninsula. What was the MAIN reason he did so?
To claim the land for France and show to other people that France wanted to control the region
The British played a negative role in the extinction of this Indigenous nation:
Beothuk
Ethnocentrism contributed strongly to European ideas around imperialism
TRUE
There is a picture of a ship somewhere in this room. What is its name?
HMS Victory