HISTORY 3CW3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Northwest Passage, Artstor, Giovanni Da Verrazzano
9 Jan 2016
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Week 1 readings scholarships can provide a new understanding of this topic. Historians have been absent when analysing race and gender in the canadian nation. This has political meaning as exclusion is a symbol of social alterity. It is therefore important to rethink the past within many perspectives and through various lenses of analysis. A primer on empires in northern north america. What is empire: an extensive group of distinct states or countries under a distinct supreme authority, whether a single ruler or government. Major non-european empires: 1400-1750; the ottoman empire began to expand, the ming empire in china, etc. so the europeans were not the only ones, in fact, the ming empire was the most powerful in 1492. The british are aiming to find new trade routes as the ottoman empire closes trading routes over land. French colonies in the americas: exploration starts in the 16th century with giovanni verrazzano and jacues cartier.
