In the beginning of the age of discovery, England and France were looking for a new path to get to Asia to trade. But after they found the America’s and the West Indies, colonization for more for power. The more colonies each country could establish, the more power the country would have. A lot of the colonies were also making the home countries lots of money from the fur trade and from cash crops and from the Colombian exchange.
There are many ways in which the effects of their lives were <span>similar, but in general they both were very inspirational figures who were able to get many people to rally around them. </span>
