Imagine that you are a geographer in the early 1600s, so you do not have any later knowledge of the history of North America. Based on the map
you just created, the location and amount of land held by each European country,
and the purposes behind each European nation's settlement in North America,
which nation do you think would dominate the future history of the North American
continent? Explain your choice and discuss why a map of North America at this
point would not have been a good indicator of the continent's future.