HIS263Y1 Lecture 3: Lecture 3-Septmeber 20.docx
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North east corner of north america-and peoples from europe. Try to understand the complexities of these experiences and draw out early interactions. No state like civilizations but clearly organized polities. A place where an average person-had a good shot of a reasonable long life in artistically rich societies. Better off born in 1500 in france or here on boarders of lake ontario? complex countries. More people here had a higher probability living here complicated but if one had to choose. Things in europe changed rapidly in 1500-the rise of europe to world domination-one of the most rapid global expansions/dramatic of all time. It had a huge impact shaping what will have become canada. 1)ships-they knew how to use them: rapidly growing merchant class-and by their monarchs and rulers-their desire for wealth to fund war, curiosity-fuelled by the italian renaissance, catholic church wanted to extend christianity to the rest of the world.
