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1755 map of the western portion of New France shows a territory that is very much dominated by various American indigenous nations though nominally under a tenuous French hegemony. The vast lands of the Miami, the Iroquois, the Erie, the Huron, the Renard, the Mascouten, and the Illinois overwhelm tiny bastions of French power in the form of ...
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A 2007 study on the genetic history of Europe found that the most important genetic differentiation in Europe occurs on a line from the north to the south-east (northern Europe to the Balkans), with another east–west axis of differentiation across Europe, separating the indigenous Basques, Sardinians and Sami from other European populations ...
These towns and villages were or are still located throughout the former North American colonies of France. New France had five colonies or territories, each with its own administration: Canada (the Great Lakes region, the Ohio Valley, and the St. Lawrence River Valley), Acadia (the Gaspé Peninsula, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, St. John's ...
A map of New France made by Samuel de Champlain in 1612. In 1534, Jacques Cartier planted a cross in the Gaspé Peninsula and claimed the land in the name of King Francis I. [33] It was the first province of New France. The first settlement of 400 people, Fort Charlesbourg-Royal (present-day Quebec City), was attempted in 1541 but lasted only ...
In New Brunswick, Acadians inhabit the northern and eastern shores of New Brunswick. Other groups of Acadians can be found in the Magdalen Islands and the Gaspé Peninsula . Ethnic Acadian descendants still live in and around the area of Madawaska, Maine , where some of the Acadians first landed and settled in what is now known as the St. John ...
Fort-de-France: Martinique: Fort-de-France: French: Mauritania: Nouakchott: Muritan / Agawec ⵎⵓⵔⵉⵜⴰⵏ / ⴰⴳⴰⵡⵛ Mūrītānyā موريتانيا: Nwakcuṭ / anu ukcuḍ ⵏⵡⴰⴽⵛⵓⵟ / ⴰⵏⵓ ⵓⴽⵛⵓⴹ nwakšūṭ نواكشوط / أنو ؤكشوض: Berber language (Tifinagh script) Arabic (Arabic script ...
The Mohawk people and other Iroquois tribes attacked the French and their indigenous allies for a variety of reasons related to both economic and cultural circumstances. . Europeans settlers in the American Northeast developed a fur trade with Indians, including the Iroquois, and beaver furs were most d