| Migration of People to North America | Canada's Aboriginal Peoples | Way of Life | The Vikings | Exploration |
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What is the Land Bridge theory?
The Theory about how people arrived in North America.
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Who were The Subarctic People?
They lived in the northern forests and hunted for survival.
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What is the canoe?
A vessel used in the water that was made from Birch Bark.
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What are Norway, Sweden, and Denmark.
The countries where the Vikings lived.
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What is the Silk Route?
The path that traders travelled along in order in search of silk, spices and other riches.
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What is the Beringia Land Bridge?
The name of the land bridge that people travelled over into North America.
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Who are the Pacific Coast People?
They lived on the Northwest Coast, and used the ocean as a main source of food.
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How did the Aboriginals get food to survive?
Gathering, hunting and fishing and farming.
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Who is Eric The Red?
A Viking who sailed to Greenland after he was banished from Iceland for murder.
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What are cinnamon, nutmeg, and ginger?
Spices that were very popular in Europe for things such as medicine and cooking.
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How did the land bridge become exposed?
The ocean levels dropped as the land became covered in ice.
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Who were the Plateau People?
They lived in the interior of what is now British Columbia, and were both hunters and gatherers.
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What were animal furs and skins?
Materials for clothing and shelter.
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Who was Leif Erikkson?
He landed at Vinland which was probably the Northern tip of Newfoundland.
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What are the fall of Constantinople to the Ottoman Turks, and taxes?
The two reasons that it became very important for exploration and finding a new route to the East.
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What is Asia?
The continent from which people migrated over the land bridge.
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Who were the Plains People?
They lived on the plains and survived by both hunting and gathering.
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What were berries and plants used for?
They were used for food and medicine.
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What are conflicts with the Aboriginal Peoples and a lack of food?
The reasos that the Vikings decided to leave Vinland and return home.
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What are the beliefs that the earth was flat, the sea boiled and the Equator and that there were sea monsters?
The myths that made people unwilling to venture into the sea prior to the 1400s.
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Why did the Aboriginals cross the land bridge into North America?
They were following the mammoth, Bison and musk oxen.THe
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Who were the Arctic People?
They lived in the treeless cold desert (tundra), an area with very little vegetation.
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What is a nomadic?
The term used to describe People who move around and follow the animals in order to survive.
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What is a Skraeling?
A term used by the Vikings to describe the Aboriginal Peoples.
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What are the astrolab and the compass?
Navigational instruments that improved a sailor's sense of direction.
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