EDEE 280 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Coureur Des Bois, King Power, Society 1
6 Feb 2018
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Quebec education program: progression of learning (elementary school student) Locates on a map the territory that belonged to france. Indicates events that marked society: fur trading colony. This is the extended new france (blue is new france), pink is 13 colonies (english) ; orange is. Settlement was between montreal and quebec, not all of this was settled it was mostly the fur trade (one result of fur trade : settlement expansion) The more fur they found, the more fur they trade, more profit. Difficulty at defending too much land (expansion that it caused) Geopolitic: french (blue) are surrounded by english, english is surrounded by the french they kept getting in each other"s way. Then the puritans were asked to leave if they weren"t happy with it. Organisation: indigenous people: we tend to overgeneralize we try to understand them simplisty be careful about understand entire people, it"s complex. Trapped, hunted, acquired the animal that produced the fur - some were woodrunners.
