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