What was the major cause of the french and indian war?

The colonists called it the French and Indian War, and it permanently shifted the global balance of power. By the mid-18th century, both the British and Frenchwanted to extend their North American colonies into the land west of the Appalachian Mountains, known then as the Ohio Territory.

The main causes of the French and Indian War or the Seven Years War was that France and Britain disagreed over land claims and the fur trade in North America