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Vikings were also known as…
What are Norsemen
The first European to explore the continent of North America
Who is Leif the Lucky
What viking ships had on the bow
What is a dragon head
Two viking settlements in North America
What are Vinland and L’anse aux Meadows
The contribuations of the vikings were…
1- Built boats that could travel on the ocean 2- Used simple tools to navigate oceans 3- Discovered new lands 4- Set up trade routes
What Europe was like at the beginning of the Age of Exploration (3 things)
War, hunger, work, taxes, illness and death
People who had to work the land for the nobles
Who are Peasants
What people believed about sailing into the “unknown”
You would fall off the edge of the earth, sea monsters would swallow you, or giant waves and wind would destroy you
These people went to take their religions to other people
Who are missionaries
3 reasons why European sailors set out into the “unknown”
To conquer new land To find more fish To find shorter trade routes
John Cabot was an English explorer who was born here
What is Italy
Land the Cabot found
What is New-Found-Land
King who sponsored Cabot’s voyage
Who is King Henry VII
Why Europeans wanted to get to China and India by sea
Trips by land took a long time and bandits often attacked them
He started the “Age of Discovery”
Who is Christopher Columbus
Name of the explorer who sailed for France in 1534 to find the Northwest Passage
Jacques Cartier
Cartier traded furs with these peoples
Who are the Mohawk
Disease caused by a lack of vitamin C
What is scurvy
One way that the French got people to go to the New World to set up a French colony.
Bargain with prisoners in French prisons to go to the new world or die on the gallows
Huron Chief that Cartier kidnapped
Who is Donnaconna
What is the Northwest Passage?
Route through North America to get to Asia from Europe by sea
Name of Hudson’s ship
What is the Discovery
Frobisher found black rocks in the artic that he found out was…
Pyrite (fool’s gold)
Viking warrior
Berserker
Hudson though he had reached the Pacific Ocean but he was actually here
What is Hudson Bay