HIST 2500 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Beothuk, Offshore Bank, Columbian Exchange
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We focused on the role of the fur trade. The alliance that lasted 40 years and it lead to great prosperity for the wendat. The collapse-> wave of 3 epidemics that diminished the population. Staple recourse- that is something that is abundant that has value and is a natural resource gold, fur can be an examples of a staple recourse. The nature of the character of european settlers and the indigenous people had consequences. The changing the hand of the territory who is controlling the land. Newfound land is a big rock in the middle. The 2 main theories are in the atlantic. Newfoundland did not join the federation until after 1949. He was one of the people who wrote the letters and wrote it to a man who was christopher columbus. Nova scotia or newfound land we don"t know. He wrote a letter describing cabot arrival, talking about fish.