HIS102Y1 Lecture Notes - Indian Ocean, Mercantilism, Hard Clam
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Shipped over young women les filles du roi for the settlers. New netherland: merchant traders: very involved with the dutch along the east coast, wampum. Beaded belts made out of quahog (clam with white shell with purple streaks) The patterns on the belt/ banner/ things depicted diplomacy. Used to record treaties, to record a oral history. But was turned into a form of currency. Algonquin"s traded to the dutch in return for manufactured goods. Dutch then traded to natives in upstate new york for fur. The dutch helped them set up factories for mass production of wampum. In this process, they changed the designs to be pictorial instead of abstract: dutch more interested in trade than in spreading religion, explorations, henry hudson 1607 1611 flourished. Went all the way up to the hudson in new york. Didn"t discover it, but was renamed for him: trade, dutch colonies in latin america and the caribbean, west india company dutch company.
