The empires of Europe were looking to gain more power and resources so they set out to find new regions and to colonize those regions.
What were the three classes of French society? The three classes of the French society are divided in three estates. The first estate consisted of the Roman catholic clergy. The second estate was nobles and the third estate bourgeoisie merchants and skilled workers city workers, and peasants
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From 1821 to 1846, as more and more traders took their goods over the Santa Fe Trail, it became an international commercial highway used by Mexican and American traders. The 900-mile trail connected Old Franklin, Missouri to Santa Fe and was the lifeline linking the New Mexico Territory to the eastern United States.