How did louis xiv expand his power?

He expanded the bureaucracy and appointed intendants in the provinces. He also built the strongest army in Europe too. 

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.