Explorers
Samuel de Champlain sailed for the country of ______.
What is France?
The time period in history when many European countries sent out explorers is referred to as what?
What is the Age of Exploration?
What object did explorers use to keep
track of time?
What is a sandglass?
Describe one positive interaction between the
Europeans and Natives.
What is
a) trading,
b) learning about the land?
What river did Jacques Cartier discover?
What is the St. Lawrence River?
What is an explorer?
What is a person who travels in search
of new places and information?
Tell 3 skills an explorer needed to
have.
What is read a map,
understand weather, write,
use a compass?
Describe one negative interaction between the
Europeans and Natives.
What is
a) natives
were taken as slaves,
b) disease brought by Europeans?
Where did Christopher Columbus explore?
What is the Caribbean/the Bahamas?
What tool helped explorers to know which direction they were facing?
What is a compass?
What is scurvy?
What is an illness caused by a lack of
nutrients in the body?
Describe why beavers were important to
Europeans.
What is beaver fur was used for
clothes and hats in Europe?
Where did Giovanni da Verrazzano explore?
What is the New York Harbor?
Tell the 4 main countries that sent out explorers to the
new world.
Give one type of food explorers ate on their
ships.
What is dried peas, salty meat, dried fruit?
What did Europeans begin setting up along the new waterways that they explored?
What is trading posts?
What happened to Henry Hudson on his last voyage?
What is he was abandoned by his crew/left alone on his own to die?
Tell 2 reasons why European countries sent
out explorers.
a) spices, b) gold, sliver, and
jewels, c) quick way to Asia d) trade
The first group of
people to live in a
specific area are called _________________.
What is a native?
What is one food that was brought to Europe
from the New World?
What is pineapple,
potatoes, tomatoes, corn?