All rights reserved. Any reproduction, publication, transmission, performance, rental, resale or lending of the manual or parts of the manual without the approval of Blue Byte Software is strictly prohibited. An Overview. Guide to Installation. Quick Start! The Construction Industry. Mines and Miners. Food Production. Tool and Weapon Production.
Widening Your Horizons. Acquiring New Settlers. The Military. Technical Changes. General Changes. Getting Started. The Command Center. Metal Processing. The Upper Section. Directing Soldiers. Types of Soldiers. The Overview Map. The Swordsman. The Lower Section. The Bowman. The Squad Leader. The Special Unit. Instruments of War: War Machines and Warships. The Context Menus. The Context Menu for Production Buildings. The Context Menu for the Castle and Towers. The Context Menus for Units.
Basic Occupations. Other Occupations. Expanding Your Settlement. Increasing the Population. Special Units. Constructing Buildings.
Military Special Units. Saboteurs multiplayer only. Meat Preferences. Bread Production. Meat Production. These goals include occupying land, ensuring the supply of raw materials, or simply trying to create the most beautiful settlement.
There is more than one path which leads to success — you can engage in trade, forge alliances, or lead your army into battle. A wide variety of tasks await you. Wood and stone will be needed for constructing new buildings, Residences will be needed to increase the population of your settlement, Farms and Ranches will have to be built to produce food for your Miners and alcohol for currying the favor of the gods.
Mines and Smelting Works will be necessary for manufacturing tools and weapons. Donkey caravans and trade ships will be needed for transporting goods by land and sea. You will not only be the chief planner and coordinator of your settlement, you will also command forces to ensure its safety, repelling enemy attacks with soldiers, war machines and warships. You should also find time to make your settlement as attractive as possible, constructing beautiful ornaments, which not only fulfill their primary function but also inspire your troops to greater heights on foreign soil.
But watch out for your opponents — conflict may not be far away as they pursue their own aims. You can try your hand at the exciting missions for each race, lining up on your own against one or more computer-controlled opponents.
If, on the other hand, you feel that settling is more about establishing the most magnificent settlement, then you can compete against other players in doing just that. In addition to the three races available for you to control, a special fourth race — the ominous Dark Tribe, controlled by the computer — will greatly add to the richness of your gameplay.
Morbus, the god of the Dark Tribe, is set on ridding the earth of everything green and transforming it into a gray and monotonous place. You must do everything in your power to thwart him in this quest! Choose the level of difficulty that brings you the most enjoyment, and make the most of the extended tool tips to put you in the picture wherever you are in the game. To install the game, simply follow the instructions on screen.
At the end of the installation process you will be asked to register your copy of the game. We really recommend that you do this, as you will then be entitled to take advantage of our extensive online support as well as the Blue Byte Hotline. Obviously, it's not possible to cover all the aspects of this complex game in one chapter alone, so we do advise you to take a closer look at the entire handbook as soon as you have time. It is your job to build up a thriving settlement with a healthy economy and defenses which can withstand all attacks from outside your frontiers.
This involves obtaining raw materials, occupying land to provide space for your buildings and establishing a series of production chains. You will need to form military units as well, either for attacking your enemies or to protect your own settlement.
The strength of these units will depend on how effectively you have built up your settlement and paid attention to the economic relationships within it. To put it bluntly, you won't be able to create the sort of soldiers who can take on more powerful enemies without first establishing a productive economy. The more you put into getting your economy into shape, the greater the chance of showing your enemies who's boss!
This is because the main method of building up your economy is to construct buildings. The wealthiest people in the country — traders in Quebec City and Montreal who imported and exported goods — were at the top of the commercial hierarchy. They had ties to several firms in France, both Catholic and Protestant.
Due to their wealth and influence, these traders clearly stood out from the rest of society. Lawrence Valley. Each major city had an area — la bourse the market or le change the exchange — where these merchants met to do business.
At the same level as the retailers, there were marchands voyageurs travelling merchants and outfitters, who bought from traders the supplies they needed for trade with Aboriginal peoples. They dominated the fur trade in Montreal. In the seventeenth century, for the most enterprising members of the lower social classes, the fur trade could be a means of climbing the social ladder.
Further down on the commercial hierarchy, there were lenders, small merchants and merchant-craftsmen. They supplied merchandise to rural areas in the St. Lawrence Valley and provided a link to the outside world. Their numbers grew as land was cleared and the population of the seigneuries increased. On the whole, despite the considerable differences in wealth that characterized this group, most of its activities revolved around the fur trade.
Many merchants made a fortune in the fur trade, the main source of income in the colony, yet they lived modestly, compared to the nobles. Like the seigneurs, merchants usually married within their social group. Family alliances helped consolidate the community and allowed some people to climb a few steps on the social ladder. The wealthiest traders possessed vast stone manors with several rooms. Their attachment to France was reflected in the Parisian-style furnishings and a taste for intimate interiors, popular in eighteenth-century France.
These masonry homes had views of Place Royale in Quebec City or the market in Montreal, about six rooms and several cabinets. The stockroom was on the second floor and the store usually on the ground floor. Early in their careers, merchants had homes that were almost as sparse as those of the lower social classes, but they soon acquired items that corresponded to their level of wealth.
The wealthiest ones had abundant furniture, clothing, utensils and dishes, but the presence of silverware, well-stuffed mattresses, tapestries and at least one iron stove, an essential element of comfort that ordinary people could not afford at the time, were a clear indication of a certain material success. When men were away on business or the heads of families died, their wives sometimes took over. Marie-Anne Barbel is a good example. She was married to Jean-Louis Fornel, a middle-class merchant, and when he died, she took over his activities.
She looked after the store, obtained concessions of fur trading posts, at Tadoussac in particular, and continued to run a pottery and brick-making shop in Quebec City. To ensure their succession, merchant families sent their sons to school until the age of 14 or so, and encouraged them to do an internship at one of the trading posts in western Canada and to develop their skills by working with a merchant in Canada or France. Merchants made a serious effort to accumulate wealth and gain respect.
They were rarely involved in the scandalous and much-talked-about affairs of the officers and certain nobles. They generally led a quiet life, took part in public affairs, willingly participated in parish activities and did not hesitate to make financial contributions to the parishes. There were few merchants and traders in Lower Louisiana and the Illinois Country. They derived their wealth from land ownership, livestock breeding and the cultivation of crops for the export market.
Their fortune and social status were closely linked to the number of slaves they possessed. Just like in the St. Lawrence Valley, their homes reflected their social status and offered a material comfort close to that enjoyed by the elite.
Well off, merchants and traders carried walking sticks with pommels, and gold or silver snuffboxes, and owned porcelain plates and silver utensils.
If they cultivated their relations with the civil and military authorities, they could aspire to various management positions. Shopkeepers and tradespeople offered most of the goods and services that were essential to the population. They usually lived in Montreal and Quebec City, the main urban centres. Those who decided to stay in Canada at the end of their three-year engagement usually chose to live in the city, to open a shop and offer their services.
Meeting demand as the population grew, they represented the new generation that would ensure that trades were passed on. Artisans practised a multitude of trades. In great demand in a country where everything was yet to be built, masons, stonecutters, joiners and carpenters formed the largest contingent of artisans in the colony. They helped build public buildings and convents, as well as fortifications, mills, small boats and private residences.
Coopers, whose trade was quite lucrative, can be included in this group. They made the principal containers used at the time: barrels and kegs used to keep and transport alcohol, oil, fish, flour, peas and other products. List of craftsmen who can presently work in Canada, , signed by Talon. The second most important group was composed of metal workers: blacksmiths, edge-tool makers, cartwrights and wheelwrights, makers of pots and pans, locksmiths, gunsmiths and armourers.
Of all of these tradesmen, blacksmiths were the most versatile. Equipped with a fireplace and bellows, they could also double as edge-tool makers, armourers and locksmiths. Metal workers had skills that were very useful to people in rural areas, for whom they made or repaired farm implements.
But they also served merchants and voyageurs, who employed them at trading posts to make tools, and repair or assemble rifles, which were indispensable. The physical strength these trades required was less essential to artisans in the food trades, such as butchers and bakers, two professions that the State regulated and watched closely to ensure that communities had adequate supplies.
There were also millers, flour merchants, and various textile, leather and clothing workers, including weavers, clogmakers, tailors, seamstresses, and tanners, who transformed skins into leather for shoemakers.
However, there was not much demand for their services in Canada, since habitants accounted for the majority of the population, and they had neither the need for such services nor the means to pay for them. Nevertheless, specialized artisans were useful to a few seigneurs, nobles and senior officials who wished to distinguish themselves from the people of limited means and to lead more or less the kind of life they had left behind, or live the way people were living in France at the time.
In the colony, three elements made it possible to guarantee the continuity of specialized trades: school, transmission of skills within the family and apprenticeships. Under the French regime, there were two schools devoted exclusively to training young people in specialized trades. It took a while to get the institution off the ground; in , only 12 of its 31 students were learning a trade.
In addition, since the school was too far from the city, it became increasingly difficult to recruit apprentices and teachers, who were in great demand in urban areas. In , the institution apparently became a school of agriculture. Its students worked in the fields between two reading and writing courses. The other school was in Montreal.
Run by the Charron brothers, it opened its doors in It was part of the hospice founded two years earlier by the Brothers Hospitallers of the Cross and of St.
The institution, which later became the Montreal General Hospital, helped the most destitute and taught children a trade for which they had some aptitude. The Grey Nuns took over, but they cared only for the sick and the poor. The family was the second place where skills were transmitted, and probably the most common. As organized, it was to own and exploit the vast regions of New France with a perpetual monopoly on the fur trade and a monopoly on all other trades for fifteen years.
In return, the company was required to send two or three hundred settlers yearly from France to the new colony, to support each new colonist for three years in return for his labor, and to provide each settlement with three priests.
However, the flotilla was intercepted at the mouth of the St. Lawrence by the Kirke Brothers, who had claimed the area for England.
With three armed ships and two hundred men, the Kirkes won a fierce battle, as a result of which the French ships and their contents became spoils of war and the passengers were sent to England as prisoners. The Kirkes blockaded the St.
In early , there remained six families and five Indian translators living in New France. Many such grants were made, some to religious orders of priests and nuns, mostly to lay seigneurs who, it was hoped, would settle on their estates and gather about them a community under feudal rule. The plan in New France was to give land parcels to entrepreneurs who would develop the land by employing peasants as laborers to make the land suitable for habitation.
The seigneur had complete and total control over everything on the seigneurity including education, policing, medical matters, marriage, food and shelter. In return, he collected rent from his tenants.
One such land grant was made to Robert Giffard, a doctor from the Perche region. However, the Kirke Brothers seized the ships and sent the passengers to England. By , some coureurs des bois were in the Lake Superior country attempting to outdistance the Indigenous middlemen. Unlike voyageurs, who were licensed to transport goods to trading posts, coureurs des bois were considered outlaws of sorts because they did not have permits from colonial authorities.
The independent coureurs des bois played an important role in the European exploration of the continent.
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