What is one of the main Anishinabe economic activities?
100
silk road
What is a route to obtain trade goods in the East (India & China) whose dangers motivated exploration across the Atlantic Ocean?
100
North West Passage
What is the primary motivation to explore North America, since a better route to eastern trade goods was sought?
100
mercantilism
What is the system of trade, created to make European nations wealthy, wherein raw goods were taken from colonies and were manufactured & sold by the mother country for profit?
100
economic competition
What is the struggle to gain more wealth from the fur trade that not only Britain and France, but also the First Nations, engaged in?
200
matrilineal
What is the practice of handing landownership through women's family lines among the Haudenosaunee?
200
navigation
What are the technologies that rapidly developed and were required for European exploration (e.g. astrolabe and compass)?
200
Samuel de Champlain
What is Father of New France and founder of France's first permanent North American settlements?
200
inferior
What is the attitude Europeans tended to take of First Nations in comparison to themselves?
200
canoe
What is the primary form of transportation used in the early fur trade?
300
technology
What is the ideas and objects that people use or create?
300
sponsor
What is a king or queen that provide money or other resources which made exploration possible?
300
Cartier
What is the first French explorer to establish settlements and claim territory in North America for France?
300
Beaver Wars
What are the series of wars fought amongst First Nations to gain alliances and access to the fur trade?
300
voyageurs
What are the French fur traders, the essential link, who shuttled furs and trade goods from the French settlements along the St. Lawrence River to trading forts further inland?
400
Grand Council
What is the political group chosen to lead a confederacy of nations?
400
Coboto (Cabot)
What is the first European known to have landed on the Canadian east coast/Maritimes?
400
Mi'kmaq
What is one of the early First Nations to establish trade partnerships with Europeans?
400
epidemics
What is the mass infections and often deaths of First Nations due to transmission of diseases to which they had no immunity?
400
Metis
What is the unique people and culture that emerged from the intermarriages and alliances among French (and also Scottish) and First Nations fur trading partners?
500
Council of Elders
What are groups of respected people that advise leaders due to their experience?
500
cod
What is the original reason that Britain claimed land in Canada?
500
Beothuk
What is the First Nation destroyed soon after Europeans arrived?
500
Sovereign Council
What is the group, including the Governor, Intendant, and Bishop of Quebec, who ruled the colonial government in New France?
500
migration west
What is one of the results of the fur trade; peoples moved further westward with the establishment and growth of the fur trade?