Newspaper Back In The Old Days - Assignment

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France was a troubled country suffering the Hundred Years
War.

The French military was hit by the Black Death, the predations of lawless, and a bloody peasant revolt. They also suffered humiliation by losing some territory to England. By the 1500s, France had regained most control over Europe but again became involved in protracted warfare. France always wanted to stay at the top of Europe, wanted glory, and since they had split from the Catholic religion, wanted to spread Lutheranism. France's King Louis XIV wanted fame and wanted to become the most powerful king. France was able to gain some control but didn't match the other countries as the king of exploration.

England, another European country like France, wanted power and goods to sell and to become a very powerful nation. England had to wait 50 years before having a King that had the motivation to actually explore. Interestingly it was actually a woman, the great Queen Elizabeth 1st, that moved the movement of exploring new lands. England decided to go for a north-western Atlantic route. The reason for this was to To keep well away from any lands already being conquered and plundered by the much stronger Spanish.

The English were therefore set up
for future trading posts for spices and silk, plus fishing, farming, Lumber, and Firs on the North American east coast from Newfoundland to Virginia and in the far north of Canada plus East in India, the E...

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