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| Traders and Culture: Colonial Life in America |
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Artifact - Any object made by humans showing workmanship or artistic endeavor. Artifacts from special cultures are often part of museum collections. Beverwyck - The name of the settlement at what is now Albany, named Beverwyck or “beaver town” in 1652. Culture - The concepts, habits, skills, arts, and institutions of people in a specific period in history. Fort Orange - The earliest settlement in what is now Albany. Settled by the Dutch in 1624. History - A chronological record of true stories about the past, usually including how and why it happened. Iroquois - A group of Native American tribes in upstate New York, of a common language and heritage, who formed a confederacy of mutual protection and agreement. The tribes were the Oneida, Mohawk, Onondaga, Cayuga, Seneca, and Tuscarora (18th century addition). Limner - A term used to denote colonial Dutch painters. The verb “to limn” is an old term meaning to paint in fine detail. Northwest Passage - From the 16th through the 19th century people believed that China and India could be reached by going north, either over Russia or over North America. Henry Hudson was looking for the Northwest Passage when he sailed up what is now called the Hudson River to what is now Albany. Patroon - A proprietor of certain tracts of land with manorial privileges granted under the Dutch governments of New York and New Jersey. Settler - One of the first to settle and develop a new territory. Trade - Business of exchanging commodities for barter or sale. In early Albany the primary trade item was beaver skins. |
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