<span>carved out several east-to-west trails that helped settlers move west</span>
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the west, the definining feature of the modern era is the development of all forces of modernity, i.e., science, reason, democracy, liberty and equality. Medieval is in fact a term that is used to describe a societal period that lacked all these features.
The French concentrated in exploring Canada because they already had forts in it in Quebec and in other parts of Canada, also there wasn't too much fighting over Canada except for the British so they decided to explore Canada.
It would be the last answer. Adopted white American culture as there own
