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Columbian Exchange
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Exchange of plants, animals, people and diseases across the Atlantic Ocean between Europe and the Americas.
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Slavery
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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
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Spanish soldiers/explorers; they conquered new lands with native people like in the Americas, Mexico, Peru
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Colony
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a new settlement or territory in a new land established and governed by a country in another land
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Missionaries
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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
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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 |
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Explain the role that the London Company to the settlers of Virginia?
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London Company in Virginia
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How did Europeans settle the Americas?
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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
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