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29 Cards in this Set
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scurvy |
a disease of lack of vitamin C |
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northwest passage |
it was a faster way to get to aisa |
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A Mi'kmaq story |
A Mi'kmaq women had a dream about a floating island and a white faced man and to came true |
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empires |
territory ruled by a king or queen |
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Eric the Red |
Exiled to Iceland then set sail to Greenland he name thinking people would come |
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Leaf the Lucky (Leif Ericsson) |
Son of Eric the Red. set sail in search of tree covered land called Hellulland (meaning "land of the flat stones") now Baffin land he also found NFLD. |
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Thorvald the Luckless |
When to Vinland to build a colony. they didn't want him there. then a fight happened and he was killed. |
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skirmish |
a fight |
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The Sagas |
story's that where written about the Norse people. |
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L'Anse aux Meadows |
place in Newfoundland found by the Norse people |
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The Basques |
they are fisher men.made a lots of money selling fish .they never got credit for finding Canada |
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The Renaissance |
14th and 16th century called rebirth time |
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the printing press |
easier to access |
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quadrant,sextant,compass |
tools that help they navigate |
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the two religions that they followed |
The two religions they followed are Roman and the Protestants |
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kings and queens |
they hired people to search for new land to expand their empires |
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Portugal |
Portugal's king invited Europe's best map makers and shipbuilders
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Spain |
they found gold and silver in America and chose not to search for the north-west passage. |
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England and France |
they focused on finding the northwest passage because Spain and Portugal had already claimed America. |
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the netherlands |
when Spain and Portugal left Asia to explore America. the Netherlands took their place in the trade for furs. |
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Cartier and donnacona |
Cartier is an explorer and Ddonnacona was a chief |
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Jacques cartier |
He was created for naming the St. Lawrence river. he sailed for France.He wanted to find the north-west passage.He made three voyages. |
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Hochelaga |
montreal |
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stadaconna |
Quebec city |
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cartier first voyage |
he went to Gaspe bay were he meet the wendat Donacona. He erected a cross to claim the area for France. then he kid-napped donnaconas sons and brought them back to france. he wanted them to learn french. |
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second trip |
up the st Lawrence river and reuited the sons with there father |
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Cartier third voyage |
came to north America and was not welcome in stadacona.he tried to make a settlement but the winter was to cold |
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kanata |
It's an Algonquian word for Canada that means village. |
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colony |
big group of people |
