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• • the first nations used stones an shells for tools however, the european brought over iron tools (repersented wealth) to trade, which were stronger and sharper
• • the fur trade created conflict between the first nation groups over territories, trade routes, and trading partnership
• • there was also less sharing of wealth
• • europeans carried dieseses that the first nations had not been exposed before and therefore, it wiped out huge numbers of first nations
• • example of the dieases included typhoid,diphtheria,colds,influenza, measles, whopping cough, tuberculosis, and small pox