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1. Define

 * Worldview**- The overall perspective from which one sees and interprets the world.

Worldview affects an individual because where they live in the world will present them with different worldviews. Someone in India, for example, will have a very different view of the world then say someone in Canada. Each person has the ability to change their worldviews depending on where they go.

2. __The European Arrival and Colonization__
A big reason that the Eurpeans travelled to North America was because of the gold that they thought they could find there. Gold meant money for the Europeans which was one of the biggest things that the Europeans needed. The king at the time was charging over priced taxes. Another reason was because of the religious persecution that many of the Europeans were facing. Different European nations were fighting over power and they believed that finding a new world would bring them glory. They also wanted to find new trade routes to Asia and by doing this they could gain more money. Explorer Marco Polo came home from travelling he brought home many things that the people of Europe found interesting. The merchants of Europe wanted to find these things to be able to become more rich. The Europeans brought many new technologies to the Aboriginal people that they found interesting and exciting. Catholic missionaries went over with the expeditions to try and convert the Aborignals to the Catholic religion.

__ 3. The First Canadians __ __ 4. The Great Law and Iroquois Confederacy __ Great Law of Peace of the Iroquois is the oral constitution whereby the Iroquois Confederacy was bound together. The Confederacy was organized and operated on the basis of a set of assumptions quite different from those held by the Europeans. Individual citizens possessed rights/powers that exceeding those possessed by citizens in Europe. The Great Law indicated the procedure for the selection of leaders and decision making processes including:
 * ** QUESTIONS ** || Pacific Coast Indians || Plains Indians || Eastern Woodland Indians || St. Lawrence Indians ||
 * How they were ruled? || Unlike other colonies across the country they never created democracy but ruled by wealth. The clan that had the most wealth had the most power. One of the ways you gained great respect was by giving things away. If someone gave you one blanket, you gave them two or three blankets. || There were village councils. All the adult men were on a village council. The council was divided into parts. Each group had a job to do. The council elected a chief. || They were excellent farmers and farming was the main focus of their lives. They were skilled hunters and animals were a daily part of their lives. Fires were built in the middle of the longhouses and were used for warmth and cooking. || They ruled by a council of people mostly men. ||
 * How they lived? || They built big houses which were 20-60ft wide and anywhere from 50-150ft long. They didn’t have metal nails so they had to use wooden pegs instead. They had to use wooden planks to keep the rain out. These houses had no windows but a hole in the roof to let the smoke out. They lived off of the ocean and had very little clothes unless it was cold. || Not all of the men were warriors. One might be a great hunter one a great storyteller or jokester. The women were in charge of the camp and the children. They lived in either mud houses or teepees. || Non- nomadic people but built their own houses for living in. These houses they built were called long houses. These houses were built only to support one family. || They lived in longhouses or teepees. ||
 * Unique Info || When a man wanted to marry a woman he had to pay her father an agreed amount. When the first child was born the child became a member of the mother’s clan. The clan had to pay the husband an amount equal to the marriage contract as for the child. ||  ||   ||   ||
 * the process for decision making on behalf of the entire Confederacy;
 * the process for selecting chiefs;
 * selection of War Chiefs for battle;
 * contained procedures for the removal of leaders who did not fulfill their responsibilities or exceeded their designated powers;
 * formalized the access of the population, both male and female, to the decision making processes, to a degree which was not matched in contemporary Europe;
 * It delineated the parameters of the powers of leaders, and prescribed the conduct of foreign affairs.

Provisions within the Great Law encouraged public participation in societal decision making. The Great Law insisted that Chiefs had to be tolerant and attentive to criticisms from members of their nation. A chief could be removed from the Council if it was deemed that he was not acting in the best interest of his people or not obeying the rules of the Great Law. Individual members, both male and female, could bring complaints against a chief to the Council which had to power to remove the chief. The "inclusive" decision making system of the Iroquois Confederacy contrasted the decision making model adopted by the European powers. The majority of European residents of the new colonies would have little input in colonial decision making.

__** Compare and Contrast **__ The Iroquois Confederacy gave much more freedom to the people involved. The Monarchies believed that they had all the power and that no one was allowed to make decisions on their own. The Iroquois Confederacy believed in equality for all and the ability to change decisions that are made. The biggest difference was the fact that the Iroquois Confederacy believed that everyone had a right to say how they felt and say how they feel.

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