HIS 300 Lecture 3: HIST 300. Sept 30

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Ancien regime- gold, glory and god: economic instability: inflation, famine, peasant revolt, social instability: merchant class, monarchical authority, religious conflict. Population: priests/nuns, average colonist, young and single, little schooling, lower classes, % urban, dislocated- self-exile, especially because they are moving to farming commu- nities from european urban spaces. Cultural baggage: ideologies: absolutism: monarch"s power was total- father, protector and god on. America had never suggested to europeans wonders of its own instead europeans attached to the new lands and peoples much of the mythology of the old world- gar- dens of eden, fountains of youth, cities of gold . Humanistic vision- north america presented opportunity to create a new. All part of god"s plan destiny for french to carry christianity to north. Not be understood on its own terms. To be short, it is as good a country to plough and manure as a man should find or desire.

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