SETTLING NORTH AMERICA 1497 1732
NEW FRANCE
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located along waterways
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places where people could buy things.
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places where First Nations peoples traded their furs for European products.
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where people sold anything they wanted
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Detailed explanation-1: -The trading post can be viewed as a large household whose size and social organization reflected the cultural heritage of its members and the post’s role in the fur trade.
Detailed explanation-2: -The fur trade was based on good relationships between the First Nations peoples and the European traders. First Nations people gathered furs and brought them to posts to trade for textiles, tools, guns, and other goods. This exchange of goods for other items is called the barter system.
Detailed explanation-3: -During the fur trade in Canada, items of European manufacture (historically referred to in the literature as Indian trade goods) were traded with Indigenous peoples for furs. These items include, for example, metal objects, weapons and glass beads. (See also Trade Silver.)
Detailed explanation-4: -The first firms to participate in the fur trade were French, and under French rule the trade spread along the St. Lawrence and Ottawa Rivers, and down the Mississippi. In the seventeenth century, following the Dutch, the English developed a trade through Albany.