HIST 2500 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Wild Grass, Columbian Exchange, Tenant Farmer
23 Sep 2016
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Immigration and investment as ways to increase population today. Jesuits developed during post-reformation period; a religious order. New france produced wheat and furs; economies creating different needs for space. 13 colonies (usa) tobacco, cotton and slave labor. Women"s power is usually indirect; here, widows had considerable power. European warfare could not compete with how indigenous people knew the land; Indigenous people actually taught them how to live on the land. Social hierarchies enforced by how our spaces are organized (ex: being close to the mill is like being close to public transit- advantage; or claiming space in the church- the first pew having the most donations and power) April 11 1734 montreal fire; believed to have been started by slave marie joseph. Colonies in exchange for monopolied charters to exchange. Champlain founded the first sustained french settlement in na 1608-1609. Development of european agriculture central to the growth of the colony.
