economic
They ate the English
The Spanish were the first to arrive in South America. There was much more competition in North America than South America. The French, Dutch and English all had colonies in North America.
The French and Indian War
"Central America" in English is Amérique centrale in French.
Translation: Competition OR Tournament
"America" in English is l'Amérique in French.
Through the French and Indian War, when the French were defeated they lost all of their colonial territory in North America. The french had lost all of their land, and also the natives.
The colonial powers had high powered firearms, which the Indian army didn't have
the main European colonial rivals were the English, French, and Dutch. And later the Spanish.
they traded with north America
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English, French, Dutch, and German.