European Explorers
Ghana, Mali, Songhai
Cultural Interactions
Motivations and Obstacles
Accomplishments
100
This group explored West Africa
Who are the Portuguese?
100
This was the first of the three trading empires in West Africa.
What is Ghana?
100
These explorers worked to spread their Christian religion.
Who are the French?
100
Explorers were motivated to find new land to spread this religion.
What is Christianity?
100
This accomplishment led to less explorers of the future getting lost.
What is better maps and navigational tools?
200
This is the country that John Cabot claimed northeastern Canada for.
What is England?
200
These were the items that Europeans were looking for in West Africa for trade.
What are salt and gold?
200
This group taught farming techniques to the explorers.
Who are the Native Americans?
200
Explorers getting lost was due to this obstacle.
What are poor navigational tools and maps?
200
This was an accomplishment that allowed European countries to expand into new areas.
What is claiming territories?
300
This explorer traveled the southwestern United States for Spain.
Who is Coronado?
300
This empire existed from the 1200s to the late 1400s.
What is Mali?
300
This group of explorers helped to establish trading posts for trade with the Native Americans.
Who are the French?
300
These were the economic reasons that explorers were motivated for.
What are gold, natural resources, and trade?
300
Examples of this kind of exchange would be trading and learning farming.
What is the exchange of goods and ideas?
400
This explorer claimed the land that is now known as Quebec and called it New France.
Who is Samuel de Champlain?
400
This is how they traded in Ghana, Mali, and Songhai, in which the two parties never saw each other.
What is silent trade?
400
This group established settlements and then claimed ownership of the land.
Who are the English?
400
This motivation was explorers seeking to be better than others (this is the word that means that).
What is superiority?
400
Champlain claimed this area for France.
What is Quebec, Canada?
500
This explorer traveled and claimed the Mississippi River Valley for France.
Who is Robert La Salle?
500
This was the last empire in West African trade, and also the largest.
What is Songhai?
500
This group brought European diseases to America.
Who are the Spanish?
500
These are 3 of the obstacles explorers had to overcome.
What are: fear of the unknown, lack of supplies, poor navigational tools, or disease/starvation?
500
These countries controlled the gold and salt trade and became very wealthy.
What are Ghana, Mali, and Songhai?
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