What You Think is What You See

1. If the maps around you showed the existence of the Northwest Passage, would you believe it? Why?
There should be different two different answers due to different maps.
1).If the map is an old map,I believe it. For an idiom--Seeing is believing, so I believe it. The old people drew the might have the reason.They won't just want to make a joke for us.
2).If it's a new map,I might not believe it.Because the map might be drawn by the person who want want others to believe us what he or she think.


2. If you were John Cabot and someone told you the Northwest Passage didn't exist. What would you say? What would you feel? How would you react?

I'll say I only believe the things that I have seen by my own.I'll feel that the man have the bias. And I'll try to find Northwest Passage to let human beings believe that there's Northwest Passage in the world.


3. Find a map by Humphrey Gilbert from 1582. What do you see in the picture? Explain.



I see the map of the old world and there's a land I haven't seen today.

The land is called Northwest Passage
which some people believe there it was.











4. Why did the Northwest Passage suit the goals (agenda) of the Eurpean explorers and monarchs?

Because Northwest Passage was good for their trade.It could give them a chance to develop their countries. They could go to other countries across the Northwest Passage, it would make it easier to do so many things for them.For technology, wealth and goods, that's a very good way for them.


5. Feedback loops help us to see reality as a system. Can you think of an example of a feedback loop from your own life? Look at page 225 of your textbook to help you.

For example, I wanted to surf on the internet so I want to have one computer before, and now I have one.


6. What did you learn so far about explorers and the colonization of Canada?

I have learnt that explorers of the old help the world develop faster and faster,It make the countries all over the world become a Big Village.