USI.4 a Ghana, Mali, Songhai/USI.3a USI.3b Exploration & Contact

European Explorers found a shorter water route to Asia!

• True

• False

Answer explanation

No one found a quicker ocean route to Asia! They all FAILED

Which of these are MOTIVATIONS (the reason people do something) for exploring the new world? (a)   ​ (b)   ​ (c)   ​ (d)   ​ (e)  

• Find Gold
• Gain Natural Resources
• Increase Trade Opportunities
• Chance to Spread Christianity
• Grow empire
• Claimed new territory
• Built new navigation tools
• Spread diseases
• Get lost at sea

Answer explanation

Motivations are WHY you might do something. You may not get gold or natural resources, spread the word of god, or expand your power for glory, but you might be brave enough to die trying!

Which of these are Motivations, Obstacles, and Accomplishments of European explorers?

Groups:

(a) Motivations

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(b) Obstacles (Challenges)

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(c) Accomplishments

• Disease

• Claimed Territories

• Improved Navigational Tools

• Starvation

• Found new ideas

• Poor Maps

• Build Empire

• Fear of unknown

• Lack of supplies

• Spread Religion

• Find Gold

• Traded Goods

Answer explanation

Motivation: Why I do something (I would like a cookie)

Obstacles: Things that stop me from my goal (Someone put my cookies on a high shelf)

Accomplishments: What I actually succeeded in doing (I found an umbrella and knocked the cookies into my hands)

Select ALL the reasons explorers were sent to North America...

• To extend a country's power

• To find mythical, (not real) lands and creatures

• To learn new languages and cultures

• To claim new lands

Answer explanation

Fun fact! It was all about the money...that means countries wanted land, gold, and power! Who needs more friends anyway?

What people lived in the Americas before explorers came?

• No one...

• Mrs. Biscoe

• Indigenous Peoples of all kinds

• The British

Answer explanation

The new world was never "lost" and then "found". Before explorers came, North and South America was already filled with a lot of people. Really successful ones too! They had civilizations, governments, and treated the land with respect.

Portuguese traders brought these items to trade in West Africa

• Cloth, metal, and manufactured goods

• Coffee and tea

• Salt and gold

• Sick beats

Answer explanation

Portugal missed out on the big "land grab" so they stuck with exploring Africa and expanding trade in India and Asia. They had metal, cloth, and manufactured goods to trade for things like salt and gold. The sick beats they probably got elsewhere.

Match the nation to the regions they explored most.

• Portugal

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• France

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• Netherlands (Dutch people)

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• England

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• Spain

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The Catholic Church spread Christianity in the new world by creating ​ (a)  

• missions
• tradeposts
• books
• new recipes

Answer explanation

Both the French and Spanish missionaries came to the new world to spread Christianity. They build MISSIONS to accomplish this mission. It's not just scorpios.

Europeans and Native Americans believed different things about life and land ownership. Match ideas to the people.

Groups:

(a) Europeans

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(b) Native Indigenous People

• Teach others how to farm

• Use land respectfully

• People should control nature and conquer it

• Resources are to be taken

• You can own land

• Land is shared

• Land is to be claimed

• People are to be close to nature

French explorers did what 3 things to establish successful territories in the new world?

• Spread Christianity with missions

• Established trading posts

• Destroyed Native American empires like the Aztecs

• Made friends with Native peoples

Answer explanation

The French set out for God, Gold, and Glory and FRIENDS! They wanted to fit in, learn the language, trade, and work with Native Americans.