Europeans arrive in North America

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Across
  1. 2. These Europeans established a settlement at L'Anse aux Meadows around the year 990 AD.
  2. 4. A man granted land by the French King
  3. 7. The first Europeans to try and settle in the New World around the year 990
  4. 10. The name of the largest North American colony claimed by the French King
  5. 11. One of the First Nations who allied with Champlain in the 1600s.
  6. 12. To absorb one group of people into a larger group and make them the same
Down
  1. 1. Young women, often orphans in the care of the Church, sent to marry settlers in New France
  2. 3. This French explorer is considered the "Father of New France" and he founded Quebec City
  3. 5. A french term meaning "runners of the woods" given to Europeans who travelled inland to trade for furs
  4. 6. This explorer captained three expeditions to the New World looking for a route to the Orient, the first in 1534.
  5. 8. The farmers who worked the land owner by the seigneurs
  6. 9. The largest business established by the French with the First Nations