HIST 2500 Lecture Notes - Pitched Battle, Northern Ontario, Patrilocal Residence
5 Dec 2013
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Part two: the north atlantic world to the 1760s. Broad themes: french colonial ventures; aboriginal peoples in the early 1600s. 2-34, including embedded texts on jacques cartier, (p. 15), father. Biard (p. 23); how history has changed (p. 35); dickason, canada when europeans arrived, in. Arrival of european discourser at end of 15th century mark only the moment at which the inhibited land and its people enter the european historical record. North america did not produce indigenous archaic human forms. First nations oral tradition last way before writing. Early people did not try to modify their environment but try to adapt to it. Chief factors influencing north america was climate. Physical artefacts only remain from this period. About 8000bce (hunters, gatherers who lived in small units although not in total isolation from neighbours) Evidence survives of trade an the exchange of goods. Glaciers moved northward and ice melted, hunters who made the fluted points spread widely across continent.
