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European Exploration
SOL 4a-c
Question | Answer |
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Reasons for exploration | Economics, Culture, Religion |
Obstacles to exploration | Poor maps and tools, disease and starvation, fear of unknown, lack of adequate supplies |
Accomplishments of exploration | Exchanged goods and ideas, improved tools and ships, claimed territories |
Francisco Coronado | Spanish explorer; claimed Southwest US |
John Cabot | English explorer; claimed eastern Canada |
Samuel de Champlain | French explorer; established the French settlement of Quebec |
Robert La Salle | French explorer; Claimed the Mississippi River Valley |
Portuguese | Made voyages of discovery along the coast of West Africa |
Areas of cooperation | Technologies, Trade, and Crops |
Areas of conflict | Land, competition for trade, differences in culture, differences in language, disease |
Cultural Interactions between the English and First Americans | Established settlements and claimed ownership of land, learned farming techniques, and traded |
Cultural Interactions between the French and First Americans | Established trading posts and spread the Christian religion |
Cultural Interactions between the Spanish and the First Americans | Conquered and enslaved American Indians, Brought Christianity to the New World, Brought Eurpean Diseases |
Three countries that controlled trade in West Africa | Ghana, Mali, and Songhai |
What did the Portuguese trade in exchange for gold? | Metals, cloth, and manufactured goods |