Why was france so interested in setting up a colony in florida?

a historian is attempting to study how the puritans affected society in new england

i believe the answer is a

polisit can also mean a body of citizens. in modern historiography, polis is normally used to indicate the ancient greek city-states, like classical athens and its contemporaries, and thus is often translated as "city-state". the body of citizens came to be the most important meaning of the term polis in ancient greece.