A Legendary Land

1. A Legendary Land Mr. Snyder Social Studies 5th Grade

2. GET READY FOR THE PRETEST

3. The First Europeans To Arrive In North America Were The. • Spanish • French • English • Vikings

4. A Saga Is An • Wet Sponge • Atlatl Catcher • Adventure Story • Spanish Ruler

5. Europeans Feared Giant Sea Monsters Would Hurt Them If they Traveled The Atlantic • True • False

6. The First Settlement In North America Was? • Jamestown • Vinland • Quebec • Florida

7. Stories of an Unknown Land • Irish – Brendan in 500 A. D. • Chinese- Huishen around 500 A.D. • Hard to tell what is true and what is not. • Saga – An adventure story

8. A Saga Is An • Wet Sponge • Atlatl Catcher • Adventure Story • Spanish Ruler

9. Vikings • Some of the earliest sagas were told by Vikings. • Vikings lived in modern day Norway, Sweden, and Denmark. • A specific story was Greenlander’s Saga.

10. The Greenlander’s Saga • About A.D. 1000, a Viking named Leif Eriksson hired a crew and set sail from Greenland heading west. • Looking for a land that “not mountainous, well-timbered, and with small knolls”. • Knoll- is a small round hill

11. The First Europeans To Arrive In North America Were The. • Spanish • French • English • Vikings

12. Where Did They End Up? • Leif and his crew ended up in what is today Canada. • The sailors went ashore and built houses of mud and grass. • They called this new land Vinland.

13. Cause • Leif’s brother Thorvald led a trip to Vinland and came upon what he thought to be three knolls. • It was really nine native people sleeping. • Thorvald attacked the people killing all but one of them.

14. Effect • The peoples returned later in many boats and attacked the Vikings. • Thorvald was wounded and later died.

15. What Is An Encounter? • This meeting with the native people was called an encounter. • This encounter with the native peoples ended their trips to Vinland (a.k.a. Canada)

16. A Long Time • 500 years passed before Europeans returned to the Americas. • During this time Europeans believed that it was dangerous to travel.

17. Europeans Feared Giant Sea Monsters Would Hurt Them If they Traveled The Atlantic • True • False

18. More Problems For Europeans • Square sail ships were slow and could sail only with the wind. • No maps…Hard to know were to go. • Money from European rulers • Nobles spent too much time fighting each other to worry about exploration. • Exploration-Searching of the unknown

19. Cartographers • A group of people in Germany paid Martin Behaim (today 75$) to make a new kind of map. • The map was in the shape of a ball. This is the first globe ever made. • Behaim called it his “Earth apple”. • Cartographers- Mapmakers

20. Problems With The Earth Apple • Behaim made the earth much smaller than it really was. • It made a trip from Europe to Asia appear to be 3,000 miles. (it takes 10,000 miles) • Behaim didn’t know about North and South America.

21. Another Problem • Behaim didn’t know about Australia or Antarctica either.

22. What’s Going To Happen When The Europeans Run Into.. • The Chinooks • The Hopis • The Mandans • The Iroquois • The Cherokees?

23. Get Ready For The Post Test

24. Europeans Feared Giant Sea Monsters Would Hurt Them If they Traveled The Atlantic • True • False

25. The First Europeans To Arrive In North America Were The. • Spanish • French • English • Vikings

26. A Saga Is An • Wet Sponge • Atlatl Catcher • Adventure Story • Spanish Ruler

27. The First Settlement In North America Was? • Jamestown • Vinland • Quebec • Florida