For years, many of the major powers of the New World acted selfishly and greedily. Their desire for land and power blinded them. The land and resources of early America were primarily divided between England and France. This led to many conflicts between these two powers. England however had crucial advantages over the French. The population of England outnumbered that of France. Britain was landless and the French longed to establish themselves as a world empire. The Ohio River Valley was a rich and good piece of land for farming. Both England and France wanted a large share of this land. This land was inhabited by the Indians. The friendship between the French and the Indians dragged the Indians into the French and Indian War. Unfortunately, no matter which side won the French and Indian War, the Indians of the Ohio River Valley would be negatively affected by it. The side that wins a war takes the spoils of war and in this case the land has been taken from the loser. Due to the outcome of the French and Indian War, the Indians were in a dire situation. They would lose their land because the Ohio River Valley was what the two sides were fighting over, and that meant a loss of their property. “The tribes of the Ohio Valley continued to struggle with both the English and Americans for control of the region for another half century. But, outnumbered and divided among themselves, they were rarely able to meet their European adversaries on equal terms” (Moore 471). When Great Britain won the war, they were furious with the Indians who sided with the French and forced the Indians out of the Ohio River Valley (Moore 471). Since Britain was overpopulated before the victory, they needed to expand their territory into the New World. The war would have been meaningless if they had given the land to the Indians. If the French had won, the Indians, at most, would have been rewarded with a small piece of the French empire because the land the Indians lived on was