Complex sentence: An area sometimes referred to as the near-west in news accounts, historians believe that the issue of Anglo-American settlement in the region was a primary cause of the French and Indian War and a contributing factor to the American Revolutionary War.
Split into simpler sentences: An area sometimes referred to as the near-west in news accounts. Historians believe that the issue of Anglo-American settlement in the region was a primary cause of the French and Indian War and a contributing factor to the American Revolutionary War.