After the death of Timur in 1405, power began to shift from migrating peoples to sedentary populations living in large centralized empires. After about 1683, when the last Ottoman campaign against Vienna failed, the great empires for which this period is so famous began to shrink and weaken
Canada and the two companies, the Hudson's Bay co and the Northwest Co both had fur trade outposts to the areas NW of the Appalachian mountains in the frontier areas like Manitoba and Saskatchewan on the Great Plains and in areas where the First Nations were well established and there were plentiful furs to supply the posts .
