Early European Colonies

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Across
  1. 2. priests who tried to spread Catholicism in New France
  2. 3. labour owed each year by a habitant to the landlord who had granted the habitant land on his property
  3. 5. two or more peoples or cultures living together
  4. 9. appointed by the king of France. Ran the colony, in charge of trade and military affairs
  5. 11. were farmers and sometimes traded on the side. Had the right to establish farms on seigneuries in exchange for clearing the land, building a house and giving a few days labour to the seigneur
  6. 13. infection of a large population by disease
Down
  1. 1. name for habitants in France
  2. 2. a regulated economic system that made a country rich from its colonies
  3. 4. were mostly involved in the fur trade, buying furs from local suppliers (First Nations & independent traders) and shipping them to France, where furs were sold
  4. 6. were landowners; received grants of land from the king of France in exchange for recruiting habitants and building a mill and a church
  5. 7. a set of rules granted by a king or queen to a company
  6. 8. complete control of a resource by a single company
  7. 10. 'travelers' who transported goods from the trading posts to cities
  8. 12. the ability of the body to fight off infection
  9. 14. a region claimed and governed by a country from another part of the world