The French and Indian War began because of the American colonists and the French colonists both wanting to move into the area west of the Appalachian Mtns. Since the colonists wanted to farm there...
The Seven Years War, the War of Spanish Succession and the French Revolution/Napoleonic War were the main wars in the 1700s. Below is a site I found which seems to give a decent list....
Even though it is called the French and Indian War it is really the British naming their rivals. So the Indians and French teamed up together to fight against the British. See that was easy! No...