Haudenosaunee and The English
New - Netherlands and the Haudenosaunee
- dutch traders arrive 1614
- trade alliance with Mohawks (part of Haudenosaunee) * cheaper, better goods, more guns * Haudenosaunee power grows
- contested borderland between french/huron and dutch/haudenosaunee alliances * escalating war between long time native enemies * trade, disease, guns, and access to global markets transform Native conflicts
Haudenosaunee Mourning Wars, 1648-50
- haudenosaunee mourning wars waged to take captives to replace lost kin
- 1600s, heavy haudenosaunee losses to diseases
- launch massive series of mourning wars against Huron and others, 1648-50
- haudenosaunee territory expands; rival groups displaced or absorbed
The English: Fashionably Late
- social and political turmoil in 16th century * protestant reformation * population boom * “enclosure of land” * private estates replace shared-use feudal system * displaced peasants flood cities * low wages, high land prices, widespread poverty
- new merchant class eager to start colonizing * the “west country men” leading promoters
- mercantile capitalism emerges * private colonial ventures backed by the crown * joint stock companies: share risks among many investors with Crown backing
- false-starts through late 1500s
- peace with spain 1604 widens opportunities
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