Jacques Cartier was sent by King Francis I to the New World in search of riches and a new route to Asia in 1534. His exploration of the St. Lawrence River allowed France to lay claim to lands that would become Canada.
Your answer would be France.
Hindrances to answered prayer include:
1.refusal to hear God's law
2.unconfessed sin
3.doubting
4.praying to be seen of men
The smallpox epidemic.
The millitary invasion was devastating but not to the extent of smallpox.
The Jesuits did not really devastate the New World.
Enslavement for sugar plantations mostly occurred with Africans.
Smallpox, brought in by the Columbian Exchange, had a widespread impact that killed a large portion of natives in the Americas.
So the Smallpox epidemic is the answer.
Sparta was the city-state that gave women citizenship, the women of Athens had their own social class, it went citizens, women, free/ non citizens, and than slaves.
In the early 20th century, the Balkans were called a ''powder keg'' because the political situation in the region was very unstable.