True - the purpose of the expedition was to map the new louisiana territory as well as lay claims to the oregon country :)
sure I will try to help you out
The Commercial Revolution lead many feudal and local entities to be diminished or disappeared entirely, but some reinvented themselves to become absolutist monarchies and national states. This violent process contributed to the Wars of Religion.
This culminated in the Thirty Years War (1618–48), within the Holy Roman Empire between German Protestants and their allies (Sweden, Denmark, France) and the Holy Roman Emperor and his Habsburg allies. It began as a religious war, but ended as a struggle for national superiority.
France lost nearly all of its North American possessions after losing the French and Indian War to Britain.
