Lesson 4 Flashcards
When did contact between the Europeans and Aboriginals start? Who did it involve?
- around 1000 C.E
- involved the Vikings and differing Aboriginal groups but was very sporadic
Were Aboriginals welcoming to the new people?
no
Who was the first European that discovered the America’s?
Christopher Columbus
Where did Columbus think he was at first?
India
What are the three names of the ships that sailed and found the America’s?
- Nina
- Pinta
- Santa Maria
When Columbus first arrived at the Bahaman Islands, what did he think he found?
a passage to the Indies
Who did Columbus find?
Awaraks (Aboriginals)
What did Columbus say about the Aboriginals that he found (in terms of what their use would be)?
he said that they would make fine servants
Who is Leif Eiriksson?
he was a Viking who led his Vikings to the new world, finding three land masses.
Who were the Norsemen?
The Norsemen were an exploring culture, who tired of and chose not to engage int he bitter feudal, religious wars of Europe.
After the Norsemen discovered Icelan, how rapidly did they populate it?
- very rapidly
- 30000 Norse descendants within 100 years
What three lands masses did Leif Eiriksson find in present day Canada?
- Newfoundland
- Labrador
- Baffin Islands
Who did King Henry VII hire to explore the lands of the New World?
John Cabot
When did the English lands in NFLD?
June 24, 1497
For what reasons wold King Henry wasn to acquire colonies in the New World?
“to seek cout, discover, and find whatsoever isles, countries, regions or provinces of the heathen and infidels”
1) not paying, ratural rsources, conversion
2) Imperialism, take over new resources and have financial stake on those
3) Markets. Things/places to trade with
Who paid for John Cabot’s trip? What would he, as an explorer, have been wanting to find?
he did, but he was allowed to keep a portion of whatever he found
he would probably want people and places and things to trade with
What were Cabot’s first actions were when landing on the north coast of NFLD?
fishing, trade
Cabot spoke in his diaries of how what were so think in the “New Found Isles” that they could be scooped up in baskets and would stop boats dead in their sails?
codfish
What did the codfish cause England to send? What did this result in?
- more expeditins full of missionaries and fisherman
- English fisherman were docking boats on sacred lands and fishing locations the Beothuk had used for hundreds of years
Which countries were all sending fisherman and explorers to the North coast of NFLD to ge their hands on a peice of the codfish and lumbar resources int he New World?
countries like Portugal, France, and Spain
Who were the Beothunk?
The Beothuk were a First nations community located in NFLD