England and the Netherlands were A. the leaders of early exploration
B. the leaders of the European Slave Trade
C. the banking giants of Europe

The native americans, spanish, french and americans all name places in our state. the word “arkansas” came from the quapaw indians, by way of early french explorers. at the time of the early french exploration, a tribe of indians, the quapaws, lived west of the mississippi and north of the arkansas river.