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The impetus to cede the French colony of Louisiana to the Spanish was the long, expensive conflict of the French and Indian War, also known as the Seven Year's War, between France and Great Britain. Initially, France offered Louisiana to Spain in order to bring Spain into the conflict on the French side. Spain declined. Spanish officials were uncertain about what exactly constituted the vague and immense colony of Louisiana. When the "Family Compact," a supposedly secret alliance between France and Spain, became known to the British, they attacked Spain. In November 1762 in the secret Treaty of Fontainebleau, France handed over Louisiana and the Isle of Orleans to Spain in order to "sweeten the bitter medicine of Spanish defeat and to persuade them not to fight on" against the British. 6
The cession of Louisiana was kept secret for over a year. France feared that Louisiana would become British. As a result, France sought to preempt any actions that Britain would undertake if it became known that Louisiana no longer enjoyed French protection before the Spanish were able to occupy and defend it. Great Britain officially conceded Spanish ownership of Louisiana in February 1763 in one of the series of treaties ending the French and Indian War. This gesture was a mere formality, for the territory had been in Spanish hands for almost three months.
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In addition to the fur trade ,Samuel de Champlain's Quebec colony was helped by <em>firearms and gunpowder and spreading of faith.</em>
Champlain the visionary would change history.He dreamed not only of adding a great domain of France but of bringing wealth through the fur & firearms trade, of spreading the faith and of penetrating the mysteries of the great and baffling continent.He persuaded the Sieur de Monts to write off his Acadian ventures and fired him with a new energy for an expedition to Quebec.Samuel de Champlain invented/found Canada during his exploration/voyage.
“The lethal war with Kalinga transformed the vengeful Emperor Ashoka into a stable and peaceful emperor, and he became a patron of Buddhism. ... Nevertheless, his patronage led to the expansion of Buddhism in the Mauryan empire and other kingdoms during his rule, and worldwide from about 250 BCE.”
I'm pretty sure it is "living under harsh conditions" I could be wrong though.
The last one...."One that is accepted by its people and other governments as the sovereign authority of a nation."