The "World Hunt": Fur in Global Commerce (AP World History)

Many native women married European traders facilitating(easing) what?

cross-cultural exchange

Russians didn't have competition, so they forced Siberians to do what?

provide fur

Indians received many goods of ______ value

real

Trade was profitable for whom?

the Indians

In Siberia, natives depended on Russian goods which also caused what?

the depletion of fur-bearing animal populations

What could have Russians done instead of forcing them to provide fur?

they could have negotiated commercial agreements

As a result, what happened to Indian traditional crafts?

they were lost

Some new opportunities arose for women in the production of what two products?

wild rice and maple syrup

Europe's supply of fur-bearing animals was sharply diminished by what time?

1500

Russia had a similar toll on native Siberians as it had on whom?

Indians

British traders moved where?

Into the Hudson Bay region

Beaver and other furry animals were driven to what?

near extinction

Many animal species were depleted through what?

overhunting

Indian Huron chiefs enhanced their authority with control of what?

European goods

Native Americans became dependent on what?

European trade goods

By the 1760s, hunters in the southeastern British colonies took around how many deer per year?

500,000

Indians fell prey to what?

European diseases

There were implications(suggestions) of fur trade for whom?

Native American women

The Dutch moved into what is now what?

New York

There was intense competition for the furs of what country?

North America

Russian profits of fur trade were the chief incentive for what?

Russian expansion

Private Russian hunters and trappers competed directly with whom?

Siberians

French were prominent in where?

St. Lawrence valley, Great Lakes, and along the Mississippi

There was a deeply destructive power of what on Indian societies?

alcohol

The North American fur trade was where Europeans usually traded with Indians for what?

furs or skins, rather than hunting or trapping animals themselves

In native societies the status of men was enhanced by the focus on what?

hunting

fur trade generated much higher levels of what warfare?

inter-Indian warfare

What were some European trade goods?

iron tools and cooking pots, gunpowder weapons, and European textiles