If you refer to Meriwether Lewis (Meriwether was his mother's surname actually), an American Explorer and a leader of the Lewis and Clark expedition, partially named after him, then he was born in the Colony of Virginia, a British Colony and part of the British Empire.
Jacques Cartier, was a French explorer. In 1534, he sailed into the Gulf of St. Lawrence. The next year he sailed up the St. Lawrence River.
What often caused great disasters for the Chinese people?
floods
Explanation:
Vikings used longboats to carry their warriors. They were also useful for doing raids due to the large amounts of people they could hold.