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First Explorers: 1-100
Eric the Red discovered this
land.
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What is Greenland?
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First Explorers: 1-200
Lief Ericson discovered this
land.
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Answer 1-200:
What is Newfoundland?
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First Explorers: 1-300
Marco Polo was famous for these
reasons.
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Answer 1-300:
Any of the following answers is
correct.
1. Traveling to the Orient
2. Trading for silk, spice, gun
powder, paper money, etc
3. Writing about his travels – getting
people interested in traveling and
exploration
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First Explorers: 1-400
Christopher Columbus sailed
in this direction hoping to find
a quicker way to the Orient.
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Answer 1-400:
What is west? He thought it was all
water until he bumped into land.
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First Explorers: 1-500
Christopher Columbus mistakenly
named the Native Americans,
Indians because he thought he
landed in this country.
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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.
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Courageous Captains: 2 - 100
This explorer sailed to Canada and
claimed land for England.
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Answer 2-100:
Who was John Cabot?
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Courageous Captain : 2 - 200
This explorer sailed for England to
Canada.
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Answer 2-200:
Who is John Cabot?
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Courageous Captains: 2 - 300
This explorer led three expeditions
and sailed up the St. Lawrence
River.
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Answer 2-300:
Who is Jacques Cartier?
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Courageous Captains: 2 - 400
Both Cartier and Cabot were
searching for this?
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Answer 2-400:
What is the Northwest Passage?
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Courageous Captains: 2 - 500
These are the reasons why explorers
were looking for the Northwest
passage.
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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.
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New York Explorers: 3-100
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.
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Answer 3-100:
Who was Verrazano?
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New York Explorers: 3-200
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.
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Answer 3-200:
Who was Samuel De Champlain?
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New York Explorers : 3-300
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.
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Answer 3-300:
Who is Henry Hudson?
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New York Explorers: 3-400
This is one of the reasons why
Hudson had to turn back down the
Hudson River?
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Answer 3-400:
The river became to shallow and
narrow to travel further up river.
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New York Explorers: 3-500
Hudson, Champlain, and Verrazano
all were is search of this.
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Answer 3-500:
What is the Northwest Passage?
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Native American Influence on
Europeans: 4-100
List three words Europeans get from
Native Americans.
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Answer 4-100:
Any acceptable answer.
Here are a few example:
Canandaigua, Oswego, Ohio,
raccoon, porcupine
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Native American Influence on
Europeans : 4-200
List three things we incorporated into
the United States government from the
Native Americans.
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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…
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Native American Influence on
Europeans : 4-300
This was something the Europeans
were introduced to and loved, but is
really bad for you (they didn’t know
that at the time).
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Answer 4-300:
What is tobacco?
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Native American Influence on
Europeans : 4-400
Native Americans taught the
Europeans how to do this.
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Native American Influence on
Europeans 4-400:
What is to hunt, to farm, and to fish?
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Europeans : 4-500
This kind of trade increased so
much that trading posts were set up
and towns were beginning to be
settled.
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Answer 4-500:
What is fur trade?
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Europeans Influence on Native
Americans: 5 - 100
Europeans brought over this spice
to help preserve meat, it also makes
it taste good.
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Answer 5 - 100:
What is salt?
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Daily Double!!!
Europeans Influence on Native
Americans : 5 - 200
These are three of the animals that
Europeans brought over to America.
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Answer 5 - 200:
What are cows, pigs, goats, horses,
chickens, honeybees and sheep?
(Any three of the above are
acceptable.
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Europeans Influence on Native
Americans : 5 - 300
Europeans brought over this
technology so Native Americans
could see themselves.
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Answer 5 - 300:
What is the mirror?
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Europeans Influence on Native
Americans : 5 - 400
Europeans traded three of these
technological items with Native
Americans.
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Answer 5 - 400:
What are guns, metal pots, metal
tools, metal sewing needles, iron
knives and wool? (Any three of
these options)
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Europeans Influence on Native
Americans : 5 - 500
Europeans accidentally influenced
many Native Americans with this,
which lead to less Native Americans.
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Answer 5-500:
What are diseases such as
smallpox, measles and the flu?
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Exploration: 6 - 100
The definition of exploration.
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Answer 6-100:
What is to travel for the purpose of
discovery?
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Exploration : 6 - 200
Most explorers came from this
continent?
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Answer 6-200:
What is Europe?
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Exploration : 6 - 300
Three reasons to go on an
exploration.
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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?
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Exploration : 6 - 400
Three reason why you wouldn’t want
to explore.
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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?
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Exploration : 6 - 500
The year Christopher Columbus
sailed.
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Answer 6-500:
What is 1492?
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