clarissa hernandez

One reason many European countries colonized other lands and people is because many European countires were running out of natural resources.

In Europe by the 1500's and on, there was much deforestation and poverty, and the population was becoming too great for the land and government to handle.

By colonizing the Americas, for example , English, French, Portuguese, and Spanish colonists were able to have new lands and opportunities, but in the process millions of Native Americans , were killed, enslaved,intermarried,or forced to leave their land.

Indeed , the European colonization of the Americans was perhaps the bloodiest and most horrific time in human history.

Besides the genocide of Native Americans, European colonists brought African claves to the Americas to work, especially after finding out that Native Americans would just die in slavery.

Imagen this: men, who you've never seen before, come to your house and your neighbors house and they all have as much weapons as they can carry.

Then they start killing or enslaving you, you family, and your nieghbors.

And you and your family and neighbors fight back but are crushedur niegf by the men's superior weapons.

And soon, you and most of your family and your neighbors are gone--killed, enslaved, intermarried, or forced to live somewhere else.

This is what colonization is : it is death, it is slavery ; It is the end of one group and the expansion of another group.