. Why were the French reluctant to give the Americans help at first?

Name one body of water the merchants traveled on

Historians are concerned with the accuracy of their writings and readings but are also aware of the inability of authors to know every angle of every story biases, perspectives, beliefs, and a variety of other differences history being told by one person at a time no one being totally accurate, as hard as we try really need on this, and you^^

What city of ancient russia was heavily influenced by the byzantine merchants?