HIS263Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Iroquois, First Nations
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(the royal takeover and the transformation of new france) Colonists came from france in the hopes of establishing sustainable farms. Unfortunately the region was not very suited for agriculture. It was very difficult to develop an export colony. The population of quebec around the 1660"s was only about 3,300. Indigenous people still vastly outnumbered the new european population. These new colonies were very vulnerable and this is the main reason why colonizers tried to work together with the native inhabitants. Haudenosaunee confederacy an organization of several different first nations tribes. Approximately 2/3"s of the confederacy were outside of the native language and culture of the initial members. The confederacy proved very troublesome for new france"s fur trade. The english form an alliance with the haudenosaunee confederacy which makes france"s fur trade even more tumultuous. Absolutism after the upheaval of the peasants trying to take away power from the monarchy,
