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Port Royal
-Colony of Acadia, now Nova Scotia
-Often recognized as beginning of French Empire -
Period: to
French Colonization, 17th Century
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Quebec, New France
-Samuel De Champlain
-Enormous, sparsely settled, fur-trading colony
-Canada -
Senegal Trading Posts
-First trading posts in Africa
-West Africa -
French Guiana
-Settlements on South American coast
-Expansion into West Indies -
Saint-Domingue
-Present-day Haiti
-Most important colony
-Richest sugar colony in the Caribbean -
French East India Company
-Established to compete for trade in the East
-Allowed for the easy establishment of colonies in Asia -
Jean Talon
-Prior to 1663 Sovereign Council, colonies mercantilistic
-Intedent (controlled civil administration)
-Provided American colonies ability to become population colonies, like British ones -
Chandernagore
-First French colony in India -
Expansion into Louisiana
-Vast system of fortifications throughout
