Name:_____________________

Social Studies Review Sheet:

First Nations and European Explorers
TEST DATE: WED, JAN 21, 2015
To be successful on the unit test you need to make notes and study the following concepts. Don't forget to read through
duotang as well. (information can be found in your duo tang and class textbooks)

How the First Nations and European

beliefs differ

Europeans believed that god controlled

everything and people were at the top of
the pyramid. plants, animals, water and
sun were put on this earth to serve
people. (only people had souls)

Convince the king to pay for your

voyage
Review homework sheet
the three areas of a countries control
(economy, political control, religion)
ECONOMY: make the country really rich
by getting valuable spices from Asia (the
orient).
POLITICAL CONTROL: claiming more
land will give the king more power over
the rest of Europe.

First nations believed that the world was

a circle and that all things were equal.
(everything had souls)

RELIGION: exploring and claiming new

land will allow them to convert everyone
to Christianity.

Effects of the Fur Trade

First Nations got new tools (good metals,
kettles, knives, axes, guns, blankets)
Europeans got to use the trading route
that was already established by the
aboriginals.
the beavers began to disappeared and
almost become extinct
searching for the beaver allowed
Europeans to explore all of Canada that
they did not know about.
because the beaver was getting harder to
find many aboriginal groups had to keep
moving therefore cause them to be
displaced from their tribes.
the beaver was in such demand that
Europeans established permanent
settlement in early Canada.
aboriginals got to interact and make
contacts with other groups.

Impacts when the Europeans came to

Canada
Pros
Cons
taught each
Europeans brought
other new
diseases
skills/technolo a lot of
communication
gy to make
misunderstandings
life easier
because of
(hunting,
language
trading,
Europeans thought
traditions,
the Aboriginals
religion)
Europeans
were "heathens"
(savages)
learned about
new medicine aboriginals were
forced off their land
from the
Europeans tried to
aboriginals
convert their beliefs
trading
and traditions with
started
Christianity
(aboriginals
first nations were
were able to
worried about
get good
natural resource
metals)
because the
Europeans
Europeans were
found land
now using them.
the aboriginal
population shrunk
because of
arguments, war,
diseases, taking
over of land.
Why was your explorer important to Canada