HIS263Y5 Lecture Notes - Mercantilism, Counter-Reformation, Lake Ontario
Document Summary
The societies were trade based economies, no states but polities (political unites but not states etc. These groups were great agriculturalist, algon in the north still used resource management strategies, could adapt easily but tended not to rely on agriculture. Algon more egalitarian than the huron and iroq. North america was free from disease and people from. Europe in the 15th century (longer life expectancy in north america). Mercantilism: merchants desire for goods and wealth, needed royal permission to conduct trade, this class needed the monarch to trade. Monarchs: were willing to fund explorations to explore, war and expansion. Demographic: boom, recovered from plagues of 14th century, by late 15th century they rebounded. Hierarchy: catholic church influence over nations (super-national) with the pope issuing guidelines that were taken up by local priests. Missionary programs had tried to change jews, muslims into christians.
