Yes people often judge those of the past as irrational in their decision making, however, given the information they had available, sometimes their choices are completely rational.

I noticed that too especially with the Mayans. People think they disappeared, but there are millions of them today.

Well get to gettin'

​@@theotherstatesofamericahis5212wait, have you actually read a comprehensive history of the Catholic missionaries in New France? 😮

@@69Jackjones69 I've read several volumes of the Jesuit Relations amoung other works, you can find the works cited for these season in the last episode.

@@theotherstatesofamericahis5212 I have a copy of The Jesuit Relations And Allied Documents as selected and edited by Edna "Hollow Earth" Kenton but I'd really like to get ahold of the complete series which I believe is 70 or so volumes. I also have Champlain's Dream by Fischer, The Beginnings Of New France by Trudel and Parkman's Frontenac And England In North America Vol. 2. Even after reading all these I feel as though I've barely scratched the surface and considering all the material that I have yet to translate into English (SAGARD!) and read I'll be hackin' away at this thing for years! Well, it's a pipe dream anyway.

@@69Jackjones69 you could spend a lifetime in study. Eccles is a good historian of the period. Champlain's Dream is amazing

This is an audio podcast, that is slowly being uploaded to KZfaq, most of the viewership is listening on audio platforms like Google music, but some people find it here. The images are just something to fill that go along with the words, also it is very hard to find public domain images on many of these obscure subjects from centuries ago.