8Th Grade Ss European Exploration

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Columbian Exchange

Back 1

Exchange of plants, animals, people and diseases across the Atlantic Ocean between Europe and the Americas.

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Slavery

Back 2

The treatment of people as property. People who don't have freedom any more. They have a master and live with him; their family might be somewhere else

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Conquistadors

Back 3

Spanish soldiers/explorers; they conquered new lands with native people like in the Americas, Mexico, Peru

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Colony

Back 4

a new settlement or territory in a new land established and governed by a country in another land

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Missionaries

Back 5

a person or group that travels to another territory, colony, or community in order to make people convert to his or her religion

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Coureurs de bois

Back 6

French fur traders who learned many skills from American indians with whom they worked and lived

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Marco Polo and his influence on other explorers

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Marco Polo left Italy and traveled to China. When he came back, his stories and later his book influenced explorers to find a new way to China.

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What are reasons for exploring in the New World?

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The explorers wanted to find a new route to get to China to trade for silk, spices, gold and jewels.

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What was the goal for the first European explorers?

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The goal of the first European explorers was to find a new and shorter route to China.

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Name some of Columbus's discoveries. What impact did they have on European exploration?

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He discovered North America, South America, and Caribbean Islands. He found new foods and brought back slaves. He influenced other Europeans to go to the Americas too.

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Detail the geographic area that each of the 4 major European exploring countries had.

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Spain - Southern part of NA, Florida, Caribbean, Northern South America

France - Middle part of North America up to southern Canada

England - 13 colonies and Northern Canada

Netherlands - Hudson River Valley

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What happened to the Spanish bordeland settlements?

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1521-Ponce De Leon tried to establish a colony Florida 1540-Coronado tried to find Cibola (Lost City of Gold) 1565-Aviles built a fort in St Augustineto protect the area and then a colony was established with missionaries and trader
1598-Onate took settlers into New Mexico, Indians were kind but turned into slaves

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Who were the most important explorers from each exploring country?

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Spain - Columbus, Cortes, Pizarro, DeLeon

France - Cartier, Champlain, Marquet, Joliet, LaSalle

England - Cabot, raleigh, John Smith

Netherlands - Peter Minuit, Henry Hudson, Stuyvesant

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What was each exploring country's relationship with the American Indians like?

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All Indians suffered diseases brought by the Europeans
Spain - good (indian taught them growing techiniques)at first because the Indians taught them but later they made the Indians slaves
France - same as Spanish but had the Indians working instead on enslaved Huron
England - Traded with the Indian; Indians in this area wanted to kill or make suffer the English
Netherlands - traded and lived peacefully with the Iroquois Indians

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What was the important economic activity for each settlement?

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Spain - traded food and livestock for other food and livestock. Also sold slaves
France - traded for weapons for fur (beaver), missionaries
England - growing crops
Netherlands - Fur, fishing, trading

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What was life like in each colony?

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Spain - learned & traded from Indians, colonies grew and explored into borderlands looking for gold, etc.
France - mostly became trappers lived and worked with the Huron Indians; cold area
England - Settled in cold swampy area. Difficult because the Indians didn't like or help them; many starved Netherlands - becames traders in a cld region; lost their land to the English

Front 17

Explain the role that the London Company to the settlers of Virginia?

Back 17

London Company in Virginia

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How did Europeans settle the Americas?

Back 18

Explored and claimed area, made friends (or not) with Indians, learned to trade fish, farm & hunt, established trade routes; Some Indians were made slaves, some others died from disease