HIST 101 Study Guide - Scurvy, Company Of One Hundred Associates, Cardinal Richelieu
16 Dec 2012
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Religion: catholicism was the dominant religion in europe. Religious wars in europe between catholics and protestants. Renaissance: challenging catholic church, questioning the power of religion, questioning traditional beliefs. Public sphere was for men, women should remain home. Persecution of women, accusation of them as witches. Early european explorers of the americas: norse, portuguese, spanish, dutch, English french, everyone from the coastline of europe. Motives for contact varied by nation: exploration/glory, sh, fur, rich metals, colonization, surplus population, trade expansion, spread christianity, markets for goods. -missionaries weren"t evil, some honestly thought that rst nations people would burn in hell if they didn"t believe. --- Norse were the rst to reach canada, arrived in newfoundland. Rituals, holy days where people weren"t allowed to eat things other than meat, English needed to be more established due to lack of salt resources, couldn"t salt all sh, so had some settlement. English governmentt wanted to maintain the migratory shery, shing base in.
