Exploration of America
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| show | In the Middle Ages, people in Europe relied on spices to flavor food and keep it fresh
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| How did the desire for cheaper spices contribute to the Age of Exploration and the eventual discovery of the Americas? | show 🗑
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| show | relying chiefly on agriculture and farming
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| show | a system of trade for goods and services that uses money rather than barter, or an exchange of goods
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| Currency | show 🗑
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| Why did European powers start experimenting with unfamiliar ocean routes during the Age of Exploration? | show 🗑
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| What were some of the goals of European explorers when they turned their attention to North America? | show 🗑
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| What was Christopher Columbus originally trying to find when he landed in the Caribbean in 1492, and what was the result of his voyages? | show 🗑
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| show | Juan Ponce de León made several expeditions to find a mythical “Fountain of Youth.” De León had originally arrived in the Americas while sailing with Columbus and became determined to locate the spring that was said to cure illness and make the
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| What were the consequences of Hernando de Soto's exploration for both him and the Indigenous peoples he encountered? | show 🗑
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| show | De Oñate failed to find the cities, treating the Indigenous people so cruelly during his search that he was recalled to Spain and stripped of his title.
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| show | Europeans had long believed that there was a quicker and more efficient sea route from Europe to Asia. They predicted there was a river passage between the Atlantic and Pacific Ocean that would allow ships to avoid having to sail around the southern
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| Who was Jacques Cartier, and what did he accomplish during his exploration of the eastern coast of present-day Canada? | show 🗑
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| show | French traders established relatively good relationships with the Huron-Wendat, Innu, and Algonquin. They traded European goods, such as tools and weapons, for beaver and other animal furs.
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| show | Champlain founded the city of Quebec (present-day Quebec City) as a fur-trading
center. The city’s increasing wealth was tied to the busy French fur trade as demand
grew for fashionable fur hats and clothing in Europe
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| What were some of the consequences of the fur trade for Indigenous peoples in Canada and the Great Lakes region? | show 🗑
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| show | Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne de Bienville founded the settlement of New Orleans in
present-day Louisiana. New Orleans would grow into a French colonial capital
city—and an important center of trade and culture in the region
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| What was Henry Hudson's mission when he set out in 1609, and how did his voyage turn out differently than planned? | show 🗑
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| What did Henry Hudson discover and claim for the Netherlands during his journey along the Atlantic coast of North America? | show 🗑
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| Archipelago | show 🗑
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| show | The ship got caught in ice, and winter came quickly. The crew began to turn on each
other, resulting in a mutiny. The mutineers forced Hudson, his sons, and a few loyal
sailors onto a small boat and left them behind. They were never seen or heard from
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| show | The British offered a monetary reward to anyone who could find it.
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| show | the rebellion of a ship’s crew against the captain
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| show | harsh weather and difficult living conditions in the wilderness of North America made
colonization even less appealing.
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| show | In 1664, a small fleet of English warships took over the colony without much resistance.
The English changed the name of the city from New Amsterdam to New York. With this
takeover, Dutch efforts to colonize North America officially came to an end.
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| How did the establishment of European colonies and trading posts affect the Indigenous peoples of North America? | show 🗑
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| show | Huge numbers of Indigenous peoples, including the Lenape, died after catching
smallpox and other European-borne diseases.
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| How did Russian colonization in Alaska impact the Tlingit people and their way of life? | show 🗑
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