HIS261H5 Lecture Notes - Primitive Culture, Saguenay River
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Lecture 1: "discover" and "founding, physical geogrpahy, west coast -> mountains western cordillera. > plateaus, lot of land but not farmable: interior planes -> flat. > when mixing two ecosystems as you go north, farming land available: canadian shield -> bed rock => cleared of organic stuff (?) due to ice ade. > few land (farmable) southern down as ground has become clay. > travel by canoe due to unique features of the land: east coast -> growing seasons shorter then canadian shield. Great lakes areas -> growing seasons longer, rich area and warmer: discovery, people already living here before europeans came. Initiated by europeans nothing founded w/o people already there (aided by. Aboriginals: cultural realism to take over (not believed now) All cultures are equal -> no culture better then other. People thought europeans were more advanced with technology etc. therefore had a right.
