Unit 1 Defintions

Question 1

Prehistory

Answer 1

Time before written record on historical events were kept

Question 2

Coastal route theory

Answer 2

Theory that states that people got to Canada by moving along the coast in water craft
Gradually moved south where they could cut inland

Question 3

Core values

Answer 3

Fundamental values that provide the basis for social behaviour in society

Question 4

Archaeology

Answer 4

The study of human society, primarily through the recovery and analysis of the material culture and environmental data left behind

Question 5

Beringia

Answer 5

Theory that states that settlers moved across the bering sea and herded animals across into North America

Question 6

Natural law of circular interaction

Answer 6

Consists of law of control, law of order, law of balance, law of harmony

• States state all creation is interconnected
• Guiding principles

Question 7

Medicine wheel

Answer 7

Illustrates FN spiritual philosophy
Teaches that humans have four aspects to their natures:
Physical 
Mental
Emotional
Spiritual
Each area must be developed equally

Question 8

Worldview

Answer 8

Way of explaining our world around us and our relationship to it

Question 9

Terra nullius

Answer 9

Latin expression meaning land belonging to no one

Question 10

Samuel de Champlain

Answer 10

A geographer and cartographer who was later known as the father of New France
Used the idea of communal living and established the order of good cheer

Question 11

New-France

Answer 11

What the Europeans called North America

Question 12

Acadia

Answer 12

A colony in New France new Quebec

Question 13

Colony of Quebec

Answer 13

Colony founded by Jacques Cartier

Question 14

Company of One Hundred Associates

Answer 14

A group of 100 investors Champlain organized to fund his trip to the colony of Quebec

Question 15

Fur Trade

Answer 15

It was the hats made from beaver pelt in Europe bing in high demand and this pelt only came from New France. This brought the French further into New France and more trade relations with the natives

Question 16

Metis

Answer 16

A person of mixed American Indian and euro American ancestry

Question 17

Treaty of Utrecht

Answer 17

A series of individual peace treaties signed in the war of the Spanish succession

Question 18

Mercantilism

Answer 18

Is the belief that a country could accumulate wealth by exporting more goods then it imported

Question 19

War of Spanish Succession

Answer 19

War fought by Austria, England, the Netherlands, and Prussia against France and Spain over disputes in Spain after the death of Charles II

Question 20

Colonization

Answer 20

The action or process of settling among and establishing control over the indigenous people of an area

Question 21

Northwest Passage

Answer 21

A sea route connecting the northern Atlantic and pacific oceans through the artic ocean

Question 22

Jacques Cartier

Answer 22

One of the first french explorers to realize they could use resources from New France and led three voyages to New France

Question 23

Donnacona

Answer 23

The chief of stadacona until taken into exile by Jacques Cartier along with his two sons

Question 24

Haudenosaunee

Answer 24

“People of longhouse”

Commonly referred to as Iroquois or six nations, are members of a confederacy of aboriginal nations known as haudenosaunee confederacy

Question 25

Wendat

Answer 25

Also called the Wyandot or Huron nation and Huron people

Most populous confederacy of Iroquoian cultured indigenous people of North America