The Mayan empire were extremely religious so this meant that they needed peaceful places to worship their gods. Temples represented sacred places that the Mayan people could go to worship their gods.
Well the first English settlement was really Roanoke, however it was not successful. The first successful one would be the new Virginia colony, later known as Jamestown;)
Germany annexed Austria, then the Sudetenland, and then invaded Czechoslovakia. This made Germany disliked by the allied powers. Germany invaded Poland for Danzig and then that is what pushed France and Britain into war with Germany. Later, Japan reached a stalemate in China, so they expanded their sphere of influence into the pacific. Japan invaded British Malaysia and joined the axis and signed the tripartite pact with Germany and Italy leaving Japan at war with France and the U.K. Japan also bombed Pearl Harbour making the U.S declare war on Japan, Germany then declared war on the U.S, I am not sure why they did this even though they did not have to.
French Canadian is typically used when referring to people who are of the ethnic group that has ancestry from French people who settled in Canada in the 17th Century and onward, whereas Québécois is used when referring to the native inhabitants of Quebec.