Vocabulary
This is the vocabulary associated with the History 30S class assignments on Wikispaces,the French unit.
Terms
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- Seigneurie
- They were long, narrow rectangles facing the waters of a major river or lake
- Huronia
- Homeland of the Huron Indians
- Hurons
- Indian tribe which allied with the French in a war against the Iroquois
- The Company of 100 Associates
- Had a monopoly to trade furs in New France
- Norsemen
- First Europeans to reach North America
- Acadia
- French colony in Nova Scotia
- Habitation
- First building at Quebec built by Champlain
- Christopher Columbus
- European who reached the islands of the Caribbean in 1492
- Habitant
- A farmer in New France
- Seigneur
- He was the owner of a large piece of land
- filles du roi
- Orphan girls under the protection of the king