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| a time in history when Europeans learned about new lands and waterways on earth | Age of Exploration |
| What is an explorer? | Someone that was sent out to look for new land and waterways in the 1400-1600s |
| What tool helped explorers to know which direction they were facing | compass |
| The first group of people to live in a specific area are called _______ | Natives |
| Artifact | an object made by a human |
| skills an explorer needed to have | read a map, understand weather, write, use a compass |
| scurvy | an illness caused by lack of nutrients in the body |
| Continent involved in the Age of Exploration | Europe |
| 4 Countries that were involved in the Age of Exploration | Italy, Spain, France, England |
| The European wanted a quick water route to Asia | a reason for the Age of Exploration |
| The European wanted spices that were only found in Asia | a reason for the Age of Exploration |
| The European wanted gold, silver, and precious stones from Asia | a reason for the Age of Exploration |
| important resource that Europeans traded guns and weapons for | beaver fur |
| Natives had to fight their neighbors for new hunting land | effect of beaver fur trading |
| Europeans began setting up trading posts along waterways | effect of beaver fur trading |
| Natives were able to hunt easier with the guns and weapons they received in exchange for the beaver furs | effect of beaver fur trading |
| Christopher Columbus explored for: | Spain |
| Christopher Columbus discovered | The Caribbean Island |
| Giovanni da Verrazano explored for: | Italy |
| Giovanni da Verrazano discovered: | New York Harbor |
| Jacques Cartier explored for: | France |
| Giovanni da Verrazano discovered: | St. Lawrence River |
| Samuel de Champlain explored for: | France |
| Samuel de Champlain discovered: | Lake Champlain |
| Henry Hudson explored for: | England |
| Henry Hudson discovered: | Hudson River |
| Natives were sometimes taken as slaves for the Europeans | NEGATIVE interaction between the Natives and the Europeans |
| Natives traded beaver furs fo guns and weapons with the Europeans | POSITIVE interaction between the Natives and the Europeans |
| Europeans brought over unwanted disease from Europe that killed many Natives | NEGATIVE interaction between the Natives and the Europeans |
| A cause is... | why something happens |
| An effect is... | WHAT happened |
| CAUSE: Asia had special spices that could only be grown in that part of the world | EFFECT: Europeans had to travel to Asia in order to get rare and special spices |
| CAUSE: Traveling around Africa to get to Asia could be long and dangerous | EFFECT: Europeans began looking for a quicker and safer way to get to Asia |
| CAUSE: Explorers sailed west looking for a quicker path to Asia | EFFECT:Instead of landing in Asia, Explorers landed on different sections of a "new world" |
| CAUSE: Many countries heard about the "new world" and wanted to claim land there | EFFECT: European countries began sending out their own exploreres to the new world in order to increase the amount of land they owned |
| CAUSE: Making clothes and hats out of beaver fur was a popular European fashion | EFFECT: Beavers were hunted in the new world |
| CAUSE:Native Americans were hunting beavers constantly in order to give Europeans the fur they wanted | EFFECT: Some areas began having less beavers to hunt |
| CAUSE: Trading with the Native Americans made Europeans very rich | EFFECT: Europeans set up trading posts in the new world so that they could buy, sell, and trade with the Native Americans |
| CAUSE: Asia had special spices that could only be grown in that part of the world | EFFECT: Europeans had to travel to Asia in order to get rare and special spices |
| CAUSE: Christopher Columbus wanted to prove that the world was round instead of flat | EFFECT: Columbus asked Spain to give him money and ships so that he could sail west toward Asia, proving he wouldn't fall off the eath |
| Europeans had to learn to adapt to the land and resources | harsh winters, waterway, trade |
| name a type of food exploreres ate on their ships | dried peas, salty meat, dried fruit |
