<span>I would say increased desire for trade, because the Commercial Revolution is when Europe went for colonialism, imperialism. They found out all the different types of materials each country elsewhere had to offer.</span>
The colonists called it the French and Indian War, and it permanently shifted the global balance of power. By the mid-18th century, both the British and French wanted to extend their North American colonies into the land west of the Appalachian Mountains, known then as the Ohio Territory.
FDR called December 7, 1941 "a date which will live in infamy