Ordinary French homesteaders included hide merchants and Catholic minister of whom wished to assemble towns or raise families, as did the English. The French colonization of the Americas started in the sixteenth century and proceeded into the next hundreds of years as France set up a frontier domain in the Western Hemisphere. France established provinces in a lot of eastern North America, on various Caribbean islands, and in South America.
It means that the Romans were lazy , but on the other hand, "soft belly" also means having a harsh time or problems. During this time, The Romans become lazy and that was one of the reasons for the fall of Rome.
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