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Explorers
Question | Answer |
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Obstacles | ~disease and starvation ~fear of the unknown ~poor maps and navigational tools, ~lack of adequate supplies |
Motivations | ~spead christanity ~economic ($)- gold, natural resouces, and trade ~compensation ($) for empire and belief in superiority of the own culture |
Accomplishments | ~improved maps and navigational tools ~exchanged goods and ideas ~claimed territories for empires |
LaSalle | ~claimed the Mississippi River Valley for France |
Cabot | ~explored to northeast coast of Canada for England |
Champlain | ~established the French settlement of Quebec |
Coronado | ~claimed the southwest United States for Spain |
French | ~established trading posts ~spead the christian religion to the indians |
Spanish | ~conquered and enslaved indians ~brought christianity and european diseases ~brought european diseaes to indians |
English | ~established settlements and cliamed ownership of the land ~learned farming techniques from the Indians |
Confilct between Indians and Europeans | ~arguments over land ~competition for trade ~different in culture ~diseases ~languuage differences |
Cooperation between Indians and Europeans | ~trade ~crops ~Europeans brought weapons and metal farm tools |
Ghana, Mali, and Songhai | ~located in the western region of Africa ~dominated west Africa one afteranother from 300-1600 AD ~powerful trading empires in west Africa |
Portugal | ~carried goods from Europe to west Africa empires ~traded metal, cloth and other manufactured goods for GOLD! |