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First Nations People
Early European Explorers
Reasons for Exploration
Technology and Exploration
Vocabulary
100
This first nations group had a difficult relationship with the early European explorers.
Who are the Beothuk People?
100
This man was the first recorded European to land in Canada.
Who is Giovanni Coboto?
100
Mi'kmaq people traded this resource with European explorers for metal goods.
What is beaver fur?
100

This device was used to guide the ships of the early explorers. 

What is an astrolabe? 

100
This word means A journey with a specific purpose.
What is expedition?
200
The Mi'kamq people traded this resource for metal tools with the French.
What is beaver fur?
200
This European explorer found much gold in the Caribbean and South America which made his sponsor country very rich and powerful.
Who is Christopher Columbus?
200
Giovanni Coboto found an abundance of this resource on the coast of Canada.
What is cod fish.
200
This woman was the last living Beothuk.
Who is Shawnidithit?
200
This disease is caused by a lack of vitamin C in the body.
What is Scurvy?
300
The male leader of the Mi'qmak people was called this.
What is Saqamaw?
300
This European explorer took three expeditions to Canada.
Who is Jaques Cartier?
300
What "pushed" European explorers to come to Canada?
What is a new safe route to asia? (seeking out silk)
300
These two inventions develped by were instruments that helped with early travel.
What is the compass and the astrolabe?
300

A person who is violent or cruel may be called this.

What is a savage?

400
This First Nations group involved both men and woman in the decision making process.
Who is Anishinabe?
400
This European Explorer was coined "The Father of New France".
Who is Samuel de Champlain?
400

What "pull" factors brought European explorers to Canada?

What is resources? (bonus 100 each for the answers cod fish and Beaver fur)

400
This group of people were the first to put the new travel inventions to use.
Who are the Portuguese?
400
A place where people live permanently, such as a village.
What is a settlement?
500
This First Nations group lived in longhouses as they did not travel during the seasons.
Who are the Haudenosaunee?
500
This European explorer claimed the Northeast Coastal Region for France.
Who is Jaques Cartier?
500
This explorer thought he had found diamonds and gold in Canada when in fact he had found crystals and quartz.
Who is Jaques Cartier?
500
This word means a place claimed and governed by a country from another part of the world.
What is a colony?
500
For larger countries or groups to take over a smaller or weaker groups for their resources.
What is imperialism?