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Exploration 101
British Explorers
French Explorers
First Nations
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100
The first non-First Nations people in North America.
Who are the Vikings (Norse)?
100

Giovanni Caboto sailed for this country

What is England?

100

Sent by France in 1534 to find a passage to Asia through North America and “to discover certain islands and lands where it is said that a great quantity of gold, and other precious things, are to be found."

Who is Jacques Cartier?

100

The European's idea that their culture and way of life was superior to that of the indigenous peoples

What is ethnocentrism?

100
A place where people live permanently, such as a village.
What is a settlement?
200
A policy (decision) on the part of a ruler or government of one territory to dominate other territories.
What is imperialism?
200

The indigenous peoples who lived in Newfoundland and had conflict with the British peoples

Who are the Beothuk?

200

Jacques Cartier put this up on the Gaspe peninsula to claim the land for France

What is a cross?

200

These diseases, brought by Europeans to North America, killed many First Nations people.

What is tuberculosis and smallpox?

200
A region claimed and governed by a country from another part of the world.
What is a colony?
300
Astrolabe, compass, and better ships are examples of...
technology that enabled exploration?
300

There were so many _____ in the sea off the coast of Newfoundland you could walk on water. 

What is cod?

300
He is known as the father of New France.
Who is Samuel de Champlain?
300
This First Nations group did not establish a friendly trading relationship with Europeans.
Who are the Beothuk?
300

Canada’s name comes from this Stadacona word that means village or settlement.

What is kanata?

400
The name of the first European to reach North America and the place he found.
Who is Christopher Columbus and the Caribbean?
400

This happened to the Beothuk people

What is they disappeared?

400

He was a French explorer who brought back what he thought were diamonds and gold but were actually quartz and pyrite.

Who is Jacques Cartier?

400
I was the last surviving Beothuk person. Who am I?
Who is Shawnadithit?
400
The reason why Europeans kidnapped First Nations to take back to Europe.
To tell the king about the wonders and/or riches they had found in hopes of getting more money for future expeditions.
500
The main reason(s) Europeans set out to explore.
What is finding a faster and safe trade route to Asia to obtain silks and spices?
500
In 1497, this person landed in Newfoundland and claimed it for Britain. He reported seas so full of cod you could scoop fish up by the basketful.
Who is Giovanni Caboto?
500
He established the first permanent European settlement in Canada, at Québec in 1608.
Who is Samuel de Champlain?
500
Obtained metal knives, axes, pots, kettles and needles. They valued these European goods because the goods were durable and useful. Met their needs with fewer resources and less trouble.
How did the First Nations people benefit from their trade with the Europeans?
500
A route to Asia through North America’s arctic waters.
What is the northwest Passage?