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29 Cards in this Set
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Northwest Passage |
a passage that goes though the arctic to Asia |
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Scurvy |
disease of lack of vitamin C |
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A Mi'kmaq story |
A lady had a dream of a floating island and there's a man dressed in white and her dream became a reality |
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Empires |
A territory ruled by a queen or king |
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Eric the Red |
exiled to Iceland and set sail to Greenland and named thought that people would come to live there Eric The Red was named that because of his beard |
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Leif The Lucky (Ericsson) |
Son of Eric the Red he sail from Greenland in search of a tree covered island called Helluland and it was Baffin island he also found New found land he called in Vinland |
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Thorvald the Luckless |
He went to Vinland to try and build a colony he met aboriginal people they didn't want him there a fight happened and he died |
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skirmish |
is a fight |
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The sagas |
stories that where written about the Norse people |
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L'anse aux Meadows |
founded Norse people and is a place in new found land and is here today |
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The Basques |
they are fisherman they made a lot of money from selling fish they never got credit from discovering North America |
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The Renaissance |
between the 14th to the 16th century of the time of rebirth |
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The printing press |
books where easier to excess |
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Quadrant,sextant and compass |
tools to you navigate or instruments |
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The Two Religons |
there is roman Catholics, Protestants |
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Kings And Queens |
they hire people to expand their empires |
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Portugal |
the Portugal king invited Europe's best people to find places |
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Spain |
they found gold and silver in America and chose not to for the north-west passage |
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England and France |
They focus on finding the north-west passage because Spain and Portugal claimed central America |
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The Netherlands |
When Spain and Portugal left Asia The Netherlands took their place in the |
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Cartier and Donnacona |
Cartier is an explorer and Donnacona is a Chef |
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Jacques Cartier |
He was credited with finding the saint Lawrence river he also wanted to find the northwest passage Jacques Cartier made 3 voyages |
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Hochelaga |
Montreal |
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Stadacona |
Quebec city |
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Cartier's frist voyage |
he went to the Gaspe bay he meet the Wendt he captured Donnacona's sons and he wanted to teach everyone french |
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Cartier's the second trip |
he returned Donnacona's sons and went up the saint Lawrence river |
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Cartier's third voyage |
he came to north America and wasn't welcome in Stadacona he tried to make a settlement so the winter was too harsh so they left |
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Kanata |
it is an Algonquin word for Canada meaning village |
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colony |
a group of people living in another country |
