6. Answer the following questions:

•What were the causes of discrepancies between the Russians and the locals?

• What did Empress Elizaveta Petrovna order Russian people to do?

•What was the result of the encounter between the Chukchi and the Russians on July 14, 1731?

•What attracted Russian people in the Far-Eastern seas? Why?

• Where were the first Russian hunting co-operatives established?

•How did the Russian Empresses support the campaigns taking place in the Eastern Ocean?

7. Translate the sentences with the key vocabulary into Russian.

8. Speak about:

•relations between the local population and Russian settlers;

•policy of the Russian government concerning the development of the Far East;

9. Analyze the text and explain what problems the Russian government had to solve during the development of the Far East.

10. Explain, what the aims of the Russian government and simple people in the Far East were.

11.Was the exploration of the Eastern seas profitable for Russian merchants, supervisors and navigators?

12. Give a key sentence to each paragraph.

13. Give a summary of the text.

14. Make a presentation about the customs and traditions of the Chukchi, Eskimo or Aleut peoples.

15. Write an essay on the following theme:”Differences between the European colonization of the American Indians and the Russian colonization of the Eskimo and Chukchi peoples in Alaska”.

Unit V. Russian america Lesson 10. Political Situation in the Pacific at the End of the 18th Century

1. What do you know about Russian America? Choose the correct answer.

• In the east the Russian territory ends in

a) Cape Dezhnev b) Cape Anadyr

• The eastern part of Russia is located in the

a) Kamchatka Peninsula b) Chukchi Peninsula

•The first people appeared in America

a) 40 thousand years ago b) 20 thousand years ago.

•The first settlers moved to America across

a) the land – bridge between America and Asia

b) the ice– bridge between America and Asia during the Ice Age

•They wanted to

a) find more food b) escape death from enemies

• The first people from the Far East resettled in America were

a) the Chukchi b) the Eskimo

•a) Culture and traditions b) Environment

Influenced the appearance of the new indigenous peoples in America.

2. Study the key vocabulary:

adventurers, plunderers, scoundrels, administrators, – путешественники, мошенники, негодяи, должностные лица

to convert to Christianity- обращать в Христиан

accommodation right - право пользования

to penetrate - проникать внутрь

scarce - недостаточный, скудный

hostile - враждебный, недружелюбный

navigability – судоходность

activation - активизация

3. Match the following columns:

administrator plunderer to convert to accommodation right to to penetrate scarce hostile navigability activation

Islam of the international relations of the river breakfast cunning the Far East experienced the land native people