HIST 190 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Atlantic World, Beaver Wars, Free Market
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The spanish fear growing british and french advances so take a stronger interest in the area. Aside from increasing the populations, they made various overtures to the native populations to gain their support. The french become more interested in cash crops and begin to desire more concentrated colonies. The french also began to control to mississippi river and the surrounding areas from the great. Native populations were ingrained in the atlantic trade networks and took an interest in. Several groups allied themselves with one european power or another along with other native groups. The middle ground refers mainly to the ohio valley. The area became central to the french, british, and indigenous interests during the 1700s. It was known for both positive and negative cultural interaction. Some multicultural communities sprang up in the region with french, indigenous, british, and mixed ethnicities all lived together.
