The fur trade arose in the 1600s, which was one of the methods to make profits in the early colonial period because the colonists could not find precious metals. Then they replaced the precious metals by fur in North American. Beaver was the core in the whole fur trade. When European first time arrived North American, they found that America had plenty resources of fur. The fur trade brought huge profits to Europe. On one hand, on the occasion of the development of the North American continent, Europe had the shortage of fur animals, but the demand for furs in the upper classes was increasing. On the other hand, due to beaver was very light and small in size, compared with other large cargo, the merchants in the early fur trade were no need
