The first thing to note is that the French and Indian War was quite complicated. Fighting occurred in South America, North America, Africa, India, the Iberian Peninsula, the Mediterranean, and in Prussia (what is now Germany). This in itself has great significance: the French and Indian War was part of the first global war. It wasn’t as brutal as World War One, as there was no chlorine gas or trench warfare. Still, the world had never seen fighting on this scale before, and it set the stage for more global conflicts in the future.