Today, we started class by talking about our blogs and Mr. Bruns answered questions we had about our blogs. Then, we started with blog discussion.
- The first topic was about the native americans prior to eurpeans coming.
the natives were nomatic meaning moved around
not many resources like the europeans
they didn't waste anything. they used EVERYTHING
native americans traveled from asia on the bearing bridge
the natives didn't have many diseases
they followed many gods
AFTER THE EUROPEANS
the europeans went to war with the natives
many diseases were passed to the natives
the europeans wanted to take the natives' land
got along at first but eventually developed problems
generally the whites destroyed them
- The second topic was reasons why europeans began exploring in 1400s
they wanted to get better spices and silks from asia (trading)
wanted to get there as quickly as they could
they wanted to expand their land for more resources and money and power
they wanted to expand their religon
technology came about. the compass so they could explore better
- major countries that explored the new world and where they settled
spain, great britian, england, france, portugal, the netherlands
explorers: vasco degama- portugal- voage to asia
spain- christopher columbus- to the carribean
france- giovana
england- john cabot
spain- megellan- first to make it around the world
spain settled near flordia, all of latin america, western part of U.S,
france controlled cananda and mississippi river area
england controlled the east coast
portugal controlled brazil
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