Western Civilization II / Unit 4 WC2 0324 short lesson, about 20 seconds
The Seven Years' War, 1756 to 1763: Canada and India Lost
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The idea
The Seven Years' War, the French and Indian War in America, began in the anchor's telling with Prussia's land-grab and became a global fight between Britain and France. Britain won: France lost Canada and almost all of India.
In practice
The witness: the Treaty of Paris, seventeen sixty-three, left Silesia Prussian.
Where people slip
The next century's predominant imperial power, the anchor says, was made here.
Your place on the trail
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