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Try This:
- Under LAYER CONTROLS, turn off
the checkbox for "Small settlements, 1750" and turn on
the checkbox for "Forts, 1750."
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Notice ...
- Military fortifications seem not to have shown much
direct interest in the people occupying the marshlands.
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Consider!
- Current population had experience elsewhere (perhaps in Europe) living in marshy conditions.
- It may have been cheaper to build dikes against the sea than to cut trees to produce farmable land.
- Survival came from the sea, not from the land.
- The far-flung empires of France and Britain were in a power struggle here.
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