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1
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What is ethnocentric

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When You thing you have the best idea and you find it hard to understand people

2
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What is the barter system

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trading system, to exchange goods

3
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trading parties carried what four things

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tobacco, furs, copper, corn

4
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what is an example of ethnocentric

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is when the Europeans and First Nations first met

5
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What year did the vikings visit North America

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in the 1000

6
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who were the three key players of the fur trade

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merchants, First Nations, and. the courier de bois

7
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List 2 ways of how the europeans relied in the first nations

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  1. advice on how to dress for the weather

2. teaches them how to make medicines to help diseases such as scurvy

8
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what is pemmican

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moose meat and buffalo meet, fat, and dried berries

9
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what where the 4 roles of the First Nation women

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  1. preparing furs
  2. they worked in forts
  3. they worked in the canoes
  4. they shared language and geography skills
10
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how many beavers where worth 4 guns

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14 beavers

11
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how many beavers where worth 5 pounds

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1 beaver

12
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how many beavers where worth 1 ice chisel

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1 beaver

13
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how many beavers were worth a hatchet

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1 beaver

14
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how many beavers were worth 3 feet of cloth

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3 beavers

15
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how many. beavers were worth 1 pound of tobacco

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2 beavers

16
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how many beavers were worth 4 knives

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1 beaver

17
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1 kettle was worth how many beavers

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1/2 beaver

18
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what is the peace of Montreal

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When First Nations and New France came together in 1701 to work hard to stop fighting and find peace

19
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france controlled the fur trade around witch rivers and lakes

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The St. Lawrence river and the Great Lakes

20
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travelling into the interior of North America would of been impossible without

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canoes

21
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canoes made it easy to travel over a

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a portage

22
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what is a portage

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is a over land root between to passage ways

23
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in what year did the new traders form a north west company come, and what was it called

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it was called nor’western it was established 1779

24
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what is a stockade

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is a wooden barrier of bright posts

25
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trading posts served as wear houses for

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trade goods, supplies and ammunition

26
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who where the metis

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they were half French and half first nation

27
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A cause is something that makes

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an event happen

28
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an effect is the result

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of this event

29
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Many first First Nation women and Metis women knew more than one language, this made them valuable, as interpreters and negotiate

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true

30
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what were the negative impact in the fur trade for the first nations

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The europeans eroded their society

and it let to loss of land

31
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what did the First Nation men do in the fur trade

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during the winter, First Nations men hunted and trapped animals

32
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What did the First Nation women do in the fur trade

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they skinned the animals and prepared the pelts

33
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what did the First Nation women and men do together in the summer

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Once the ice melted from the winter the both loaded the canoes with furs

34
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List two thing the merchants did in the fur trade

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1) Both the French and the English fur trade, merchants financed and organized the fur trade.
2) The Europeans shipped the goods to Canada and then they shipped it back to Europe and gave it to the hat maker

35
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What did the courier de bois do in the fur trade

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they traded pots and pans with the First Nations and they traveled from Montreal to the trading forts

36
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The system of trade used in the fur trade was

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barter system

37
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at first the French fur trade was dependant on the ________ who explored North America and traded with native people

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Coureurs de bois

38
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The European ______ financed and organized the fur trade

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Merchants

39
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Initially the First Nations (specifically the Wendat) brought furs to the French for trading. Then, Governor Frontenac changed this and sent courier de bois out to collect furs from the First Nations peoples, rather than waiting for the furs to be delivered. Why did he make this change to their trade routine?

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It had become to difficult for the Wendat to bring furs to the French traders because the haudenosaunee were interfering

40
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The the wendat were no longer able to assist the French in the fur trade, This aboriginal group attempted to take their place

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The Odawa

41
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The Fur trade,within North America, replied mostly on _______ for transportation

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Canoes

42
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True or false: many First Nations women did more hunting of large animals than male their partners

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False