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Native Americans who traded with Europeans. Debatable question
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31 Dec 2018, 01:47
Line Exactly when in the early modern era Native Americans began exchanging animal furs with Europeans for European-made goods is uncertain. What is fairly certain, even though they left (5) no written evidence of having done so, is that the first Europeans to conduct such trade during the modern period were fishing crews working the waters around Newfoundland. Archaeologists had noticed that sixteenth-century Native American (10) sites were strewn with iron bolts and metal pins. Only later, upon reading Nicolas Denys’s 1672 account of seventeenth-century European settlements in North America, did archaeologists realize that sixteenth-century European fishing (15) crews had dismantled and exchanged parts of their ships for furs. By the time Europeans sailing the Atlantic coast of North America first documented the fur trade, it was apparently well underway. The first to record (20) such trade—the captain of a Portuguese vessel sailing from Newfoundland in 1501—observed that a Native American aboard the ship wore Venetian silver earrings. Another early chronicler noted in 1524 that Native Americans living along the coast of what is now (25) New England had become selective about European trade goods: they accepted only knives, fishhooks, and sharp metal. By the time Cartier sailed the Saint Lawrence River ten years later, Native Americans had traded with Europeans for more than thirty years, (30) perhaps half a century.
Question: Which of the following can be inferred from the passage about evidence pertaining to the fur trade between Native Americans and Europeans in the early modern era? A) A lack of written evidence has made it difficult to establish which Europeans first participated in this trade. B) In general, the physical evidence pertaining to this trade has been more useful than the written evidence has been. C) There is more written evidence pertaining to this trade from the early part of the sixteenth century than from later in that century. D) The earliest written evidence pertaining to this trade dates from a time when the trade was already well established. E) Some important pieces of evidence pertaining to this trade, such as Denys’s 1672 account, were long overlooked by archaeologists.
The correct answer is D. Why? The question asks about evidence pertaining to the fur trade in the early modern era. Lines 7-10 talk about iron bolts and metal pins, which were found in the 16th century. After reading Nicolas Denys's writings (1672, 17th century), archeologists realized that European fishing crews exchanged ships parts for furs. My conclusion is that, archeologists had no idea why there were bolts and pins(16th century), but later, in the 17th century they decided to read the writings and found the answer after 100 years. They definitely overlooked evidence for a long period of time.
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