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New York Explorers

Influence on

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Eric the Red discovered this land.

First Explorers: 1-100


Answer :

What is Greenland?


Lief Ericson discovered this land.



Answer 1-200:

What is Newfoundland?


Marco Polo was famous for these reasons.



Answer 1-300:

Any of the following answers is correct.

1. Traveling to the Orient2. Trading for silk, spice, gun

powder, paper money, etc3. Writing about his travels – getting

people interested in traveling and exploration


Christopher Columbus sailed in this direction hoping to find a quicker way to the Orient.



Answer 1-400:

What is west? He thought it was all water until he bumped into land.


Christopher Columbus mistakenly named the Native Americans,

Indians because he thought he landed in this country.



Answer 1-500:

What is India? He really landed in the Americas and proved the earth was not flat. He was one of the first

explores to begin looking for a different passage to the Orient.


This explorer sailed to Canada and claimed land for England.

Courageous Captains: 2 - 100


Answer 2-100:

Who was John Cabot?


This explorer sailed for England to Canada.

Courageous Captain : 2 - 200


Answer 2-200:

Who is John Cabot?


This explorer led three expeditions and sailed up the St. Lawrence

River.



Answer 2-300:

Who is Jacques Cartier?


Both Cartier and Cabot were searching for this?



Answer 2-400:

What is the Northwest Passage?


These are the reasons why explorers were looking for the Northwest

passage.



Answer 2-500:

What were countries were looking for a cheaper and quicker way to get to the Orient for trading purposes?

**Remember it is quicker and easier to travel by water than by land. If they went east they had to go by land,

so they tried going west and then northwest.


This explorer explored the northeast coast of North America from Cape Fear to Maine while looking for the Northwest Passage. There is a

bridge named after him as well.

He was the first one to discover the New York Harbor. His brother mapped his voyage and

findings.

New York Explorers: 3-100


Answer 3-100:

Who was Verrazano?


This French explorer and navigator mapped much of northeastern North America and started a

settlement in Quebec. He also discovered the lake later named for him (1609) and was important in beginning fur trade for the French colonies in the New World. He fought with the Algonquin against

the Iroquois.



Answer 3-200:

Who was Samuel De Champlain?


He was an English explorer and navigator who explored parts of the

Arctic Ocean and northeastern North America. The Hudson River, Hudson Strait, and Hudson Bay are named for

this explorer.

New York Explorers : 3-300


Answer 3-300:

Who is Henry Hudson?


This is one of the reasons why Hudson had to turn back down the

Hudson River?



Answer 3-400:

The river became to shallow and narrow to travel further up river.


Hudson, Champlain, and Verrazano all were is search of this.



Answer 3-500:

What is the Northwest Passage?


List three words Europeans get from Native Americans.

Native American Influence on Europeans: 4-100


Answer 4-100:

Any acceptable answer.

Here are a few example: Canandaigua, Oswego, Ohio,

raccoon, porcupine


List three things we incorporated into the United States government from the

Native Americans.

Native American Influence on Europeans : 4-200


Answer 4-200:

Any acceptable answer.

May include: freedom of speech, freedom of religion, a system of

checks and balances, representative government, democracy,

constitution, etc…


This was something the Europeans were introduced to and loved, but is really bad for you (they didn’t know

that at the time).



Answer 4-300:

What is tobacco?


Native Americans taught the Europeans how to do this.



Native American Influence on Europeans 4-400:

What is to hunt, to farm, and to fish?


This kind of trade increased so much that trading posts were set up

and towns were beginning to be settled.



Answer 4-500:

What is fur trade?


Europeans brought over this spice to help preserve meat, it also makes

it taste good.

Europeans Influence on Native Americans: 5 - 100


Answer 5 - 100:

What is salt?


These are three of the animals that Europeans brought over to America.

Europeans Influence on Native Americans : 5 - 200

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Answer 5 - 200:

What are cows, pigs, goats, horses, chickens, honeybees and sheep?

(Any three of the above are acceptable.


Europeans brought over this technology so Native Americans

could see themselves.



Answer 5 - 300:

What is the mirror?


Europeans traded three of these technological items with Native

Americans.



Answer 5 - 400:

What are guns, metal pots, metal tools, metal sewing needles, iron knives and wool? (Any three of

these options)


Europeans accidentally influenced many Native Americans with this,

which lead to less Native Americans.



Answer 5-500:

What are diseases such as smallpox, measles and the flu?


The definition of exploration.

Exploration: 6 - 100


Answer 6-100:

What is to travel for the purpose of discovery?


Most explorers came from this continent?

Exploration : 6 - 200


Answer 6-200:

What is Europe?


Three reasons to go on an exploration.



Answer 6-300:

What is for adventure, for riches, to become famous, treasure, meet new people, find new places, discovery,

or any other acceptable answer?


Three reason why you wouldn’t want to explore.



Answer 6-400:

What is they might fall off the edge of the earth, sea monsters, sea storms, starvation, poor ship

construction, or any other acceptable answer?


The year Christopher Columbus sailed.



Answer 6-500:

What is 1492?

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