HIST 1310 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Eucharist, Beaver Wars, Puritans
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Europeans valued beavers primarily for their pelts and hunted them almost to extinction, they also admired their industry and their skill at building dams. Catholic france and two protestant countries, dutch republic and england, challenged spanish power in europe and overseas: none of them planted a permanent settlement in north america before 1600. Virginia and barbados grew staple crops with indentured servants and african slaves. New france and new netherland developed a prosperous trade with the indians and forged closed political ties with them. In new england, the puritans relied on free labor provided mostly by family members. The protestant reformation shattered the religious unity of europe. The states of northern germany and scandinavia had embraced lutheranism. Calvinists rejected the pope, all catholic sacraments except baptism and the lord"s. Supper, clerical celibacy, veneration of the saints, and the pious rituals by which.
