Early Explorers

Columbus was searching for...

• riches
• a passage to Asia
• to spread Christianity

The main countries who sent explorers out to claim new lands were...

• France, Italy, Germany
• Britain, France, Spain
• Japan, China, India

This wiped out entire tribes of Native Americans...

• war
• bad water
• diseases from Europe

You can tell that...

• they live in a cold place
• they don't have many trees
• there is a water source nearby

Finding this on a sunken ship would most likely mean...

• the people liked to read
• they were trying to spread Christianity to the world
• they were bible salesmen

Early explorers went out because...

• they wanted to get rich
• they wanted to be famous
• they came for many different reasons

We learned about the Greeks mainly because...

• They gave us the Olympics
• We like Greek Mythology
• They gave us Democracy

We learned about the Roman because...

• They gave us a representative government
• Gladiators are cool!
• They knew how to get sewage out of Rome

We learned about the Vikings because...

• Ok, because THEY are cool!
• Yes, they are cool but they bridged the times of the Romans with that of the Middle Ages
• Yeah, but they WERE cool...you have to admit that even if they didn't really wear those horned helmets which I totally think they should have worn!

We learned about the Middle Ages because...

• because we like Knights
• because we like castles
• because our Founding Fathers did not like the idea of Kings--specifically that by right of being born you could be the ruler