History of Quebec and Canada 414 WWW Links

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MODULE 1: THE FRENCH EMPIRE IN NORTH AMERICA

UNIT 1: THE OCCUPATION OF THE TERRRITORY

TOPIC A: REASONS FOR EXPLORATION

• European Explorers
  Seeking the shortest navigation route towards China and the Indies,
  Europe happened upon an unknow continent: America, the New World.
• North Atlantic crossings
  The search  for a sea route to the Spice Islands and the Orient led Europeans such as
  Cabotto, Verrazzano, Cartier, Frobisher, Davis, Champlain and Hudson to explore North America.

TOPIC B: CARTIER'S VOYAGES

• Discoverers Web: Jacques Cartier
  He was looking for a passage through or around North America to East Asia,
  as some had done before him, and many would after him.
• THE VOYAGES OF JACQUES CARTIER
  While the English were concentrating on a northwest passage to Asia, the French King, Francois I
  commissioned Jacques Cartier (born in 1491) to find a way west to the Pacific and claim new lands for France.

TOPIC C: GEOGRAPHICAL CONDITIONS

• North America's natural regions
  What kinds of country did the European explorers find in North America?

 

  TOPIC A: VIEWS OF COLONIZATION

• The fur trade
  During the French regime, the fur trade was the major commercial activity that sustained the colony.
• The Habitant in New France
  Populating New France was the key to a balanced and profitable development.

TOPIC B: MERCANTILISM

• Mercantilism
  An economic policy of the major trading nations from the 16th to the 18th cent.
• Economics - History -- The 18th Century
  Between 1600 and 1800 most of the states of western Europe were heavily influenced by a policy usually known as mercantilism.

TOPIC C: TERRRITORIAL AND MILITARY CONSEQUENCES

• THE FUR TRADE IN NEW FRANCE
  The activities of the coureurs des bois contributed to the rapid expansion of the territory of New France
   

TOPIC A: SOCIO-CULTURAL ORGANIZATION

• Algonquin History
  If for no other reason, the Algonquin would be famous because their name has been used for the largest native language group in North America.
• Iroquois History
  The original homeland of the Iroquois was in upstate New York between the Adirondack Mountains and Niagara Falls. Through conquest and migration, they gained control of most of the northeastern United States and eastern Canada.
• Iroquois-Location               
• Algonkins-Location

  TOPIC B: MUTUAL INFLUENCES

• The Indian an indispensable partner
  The fur trade could not have existed without the Indians, who imposed their trading practices and commercial
   requirements on the Europeans.
• Two Civilizations
  The meeting of two civilizations always involves an exchange of ideas, objects and ways of doing things that are later adapted to the tastes and needs of each culture.