European Explorers
This Italian explorer sailed for Spain and landed in the Americas in 1492.
Who is Christopher Columbus?
Europeans wanted to find this to become rich.
What is gold?
These people lived in North America before Europeans arrived.
Who are Indigenous peoples?
Imperialism is when a country tries to do this to other places.
What is take control?
Colonization changed this, which includes language, food, and traditions.
What is culture?
This explorer claimed land in Canada for France.
Who is Jacques Cartier?
Many Europeans wanted to spread this religion.
What is Christianity?
Europeans brought these, which made many Indigenous people sick.
What are diseases?
This continent was heavily colonized during the Age of Imperialism.
What is Africa?
Colonized people often lost control of this.
What is their land or government?
This British explorer helped establish colonies in North America
Who is John Cabot?
Colonies gave countries more of this, which helped them become powerful.
What is land?
Colonization often led to the loss of this important resource for Indigenous peoples.
What is land?
This country had the largest empire during the 1800s and early 1900s.
What is Britain?
Colonization caused many Indigenous people to lose this.
What is their freedom?
This explorer sailed around Africa to reach India.
Who is Vasco da Gama?
Colonizers wanted to trade for these, like spices and fur.
What are valuable goods?
Indigenous children were taken to these schools to learn European ways.
What are residential schools?
Imperialism often led to this kind of unfair treatment of local people.
What is exploitation?
Colonization created these between rich and poor countries.
What are inequalities?
This explorer conquered the Aztec Empire in Mexico.
Who is Hernán Cortés?
This idea said that powerful countries should control weaker ones to grow stronger.
What is imperialism?
Indigenous peoples sometimes did this to protect their land and culture.
What is resist (or fight back)?
Name one reason why imperialism was harmful to colonized countries.
What is loss of culture / unfair treatment / stealing resources?
Even today, many countries are still affected by colonization in these ways.
What are economic and social problems?