France Period 2 AP World History

in Americas

national rivalries

reformation - catholics seeking converts

northwest passage —> louisiana + great lakes

Collab with native americans + get animal pelts

Haiti - sugar colony (very hard labor)

reformation

when christianity split into catholic + protestant

France in asia

IndoChina - Laos, Cambodia, Vietnam

grow food there to feed their other colonies they conquered (use champa rice)

SE Asia - allow females to be merchants (continuity)!!!!!

Russia (not abt france)

European rivals to west

Landbased bc of frozens seas

Taiga forest - animal pelts (like the french)

Kings want to mirror what europeans do —> expand into taiga

Mercantilism

amount of wealth in world is measurable + finite

colonization: grow ur slice, shrink your enemys slice (in wealth and power)

Columbian exchange

rats, mosquitos, conquest vs food + wealth, disease

resistance + slave trade —> rebound