First Contacts
First Contacts (___/10)
Select two of the following to research. Fill in the chart below.
First Contacts List
Indigenous Portuguese contact
- voyage of Portuguese explorers Bartholomew Diaz, Pedro Cabral, and Pedro Vaz de Caminha to Brazil in 1500
Indigenous Spanish contact
- voyages of Christopher Columbus and meetings with the Tainos peoples of the Bahamas
Indigenous French contact
- voyage of Jacques Cartier
Indigenous British contact
- voyages of Martin Frobisher
The Online Reference Centre at LearnAlberta.ca may help in your research.
Suggested keyword searches include “explorer’s name,” “Age of Discovery,” “European exploration and expansion.”
References that may support your research include the following:
- History Study Center
- Sirs Discoverer
- World Book Encyclopedia
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Contact Between the Groups: What, Where, Why, When, and How? First contact—research what happened. Choose two groups to research from above ad place your findings in the chart below. Most of the accounts about first contact that have survived over time are European in perspective. Your frequent and successful search results will commonly be connected to the European explorer. You may use suggested references available at the Online Reference Centre. You may also contact your teacher for information about additional websites that will provide information from Indigenous perspectives. |
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Scoring Criteria: Contact Between the Groups: What, Where, Why, When, and How? (10 marks)
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