Questions to be answered

Questions to be answered

Who were the Metis? Who were the "Country Born"? What role did these two groups play in the fur trade and the development of western Canada? How were they affected by the HBC-NWC merger of 1821?

In Greek mythology, Metis was the Titaness who personified wisdom, or in the bad sense, the perfidy. It was also a Oceanid, daughter of Ocean and Tethys. It was she who, at the behest of Zeus, gave the latter's father, Cronus, the emetic which made ??him vomit the children had eaten previously. She was the first mistress and wife of Zeus, who at first strove to metamorphose depart in many ways. Prophesied that Metis would bear Zeus a daughter and a son who would later destined to rule the world, though Hesiod says they were Uranus and Gaea who made ??him this revelation. For this Zeus ate while pregnant with Athena, and he later gave birth to her daughter, who sprang from his head with the help of Hephaestus (Jackson, John, 2007).

There are only a few written sources on behalf of the people who inhabited the country of Born and country of Buch. Their examination will be aware of the difficulty with the search for their name: Boïates or Boii. Only from the second Iron Age it is sometimes possible to name and locate the tribes scattered over the territory of the Landes. Boïates of the Bassin d'Arcachon also occupied land of the Pays de Born, perhaps until around Aureilhan. Other sources indicate the presence of Cocosates; people Aquitaine, at the time of the Pax Romana (Jackson, John, 2007).

These two were influential in the fur trade and in the development of western Canada, as it was due to their efforts and negotiation that the fur trade and the development of the western Canada happened. As NWC was an ally and HBC was a kind of an enemy, there merger made things easy (Jackson, John, 2007).

Comment on the impact of imperial policies on the development of British North America in the 20 years following the Napoleonic Wars.

The concept of Imperialism and Colonialism are not easy to define and identify obvious in many cases. The historical sense of the term colonization has a wide range designating any form of control political, economic or cultural in different periods of history. You can designate both the Greek colonization of the eighth century BC, as ...