HIST 303 Lecture : First lecture notes for Hist 303
8 Oct 2011
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Lecture one (native lands and the french empire- september sixth) In the past, discussing empires referred to a study of the victors. It was about a group of people sent by god on a divine mission to settle new france. When these people arrived here they found a land filled with nobody. The native peoples disappeared as part of the natural course of how god saw this land developing according to these explorers. It was hoped that the natives would disappear since they were not catholic. Some people looked more critically at the empire and would portray natives as people who lived peacefully with the world as well as with each other. These natives were thought to not change over time. Europeans were thought to have destroyed the perfect land that was there before they arrived. Spain goes to war against the aztecs and through the use of biological weapons, wipes out their population.
