Exploration and Native Americans

Exploration and Native Americans

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What famous explorer(s) do you know?

What land did they discover?

Christopher Columbus

• Merchant family in Genoa

• Attempted to find an alternate route to Asia

• Reached the New World by accident

The Columbus Voyages

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Henry Hudson

• Commissioned by the English and Dutch to find the Northwest Passage

• Sailed up what would be called the Hudson River and along what would be called the Hudson Bay

Sir Francis Drake

• Many of the English discoveries and territories were not as fruitful as the Spanish ones

• The Government hired “privateers”

• That’s a nice way of saying pirate

• English Privateers raided Spanish ships

Early Attempts at English Colonization

• Privateers needed layovers stops

• English colonies were not as fruitful as Spanish ones

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What do you think happened at Roanoke

• They became Cannibals!

• Abducted by Aliens

• They were adopted by a near by tribe

• Some other theory

Native American Civilations

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What if anything do you know about Native American tribes?

Where do you think the tribe you know about live(d)?

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