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Exactly when in the early modern era Native Americans began exchanging animal fu
Exactly when in the early modern era Native Americans began exchanging animal fu
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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 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 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 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 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 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, perhaps half a century. [br] The passage supports which of the following statements about sixteenth-century European fishing crews working the waters off Newfoundland?
选项
A、They wrote no accounts of their fishing voyages.
B、They primarily sailed under the flag of Portugal.
C、They exchanged ship parts with Native Americans for furs.
D、They commonly traded jewelry with Native Americans for furs.
E、They carried surplus metal implements to trade with Native Americans for furs.
答案
C
解析
Inference
The question asks which statement is supported by information provided in the passage. The first paragraph states that European fishing crews around Newfoundland were the first Europeans to trade goods for furs with Native Americans in the modern period. The last sentence of the paragraph states that archaeological evidence indicates the crews had dismantled their ships to trade ship parts for furs.
A The second sentence states that the crews left no written accounts of their trade with Native Americans, but it does not suggest that they left no written accounts of their voyages.
B The passage mentions one Portuguese vessel but does not suggest that the European crews who fished off Newfoundland were mostly on Portuguese vessels.
C Correct. The last sentence of the first paragraph supports the conclusion that the crews traded ship parts for furs.
D The passage mentions one instance of a Native American acquiring earrings from Europeans but does not suggest that trades for such goods were common.
E The passage indicates that fishing crews traded metal implements with Native Americans but does not suggest that they brought surplus implements for that purpose—and in fact mentions that sometimes traded metal articles had been parts of their own ships.
The correct answer is C.
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