Colonial History notes, part 2

One reason many European countries colonized other land and people is because many European countries 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 Americans, for example, English, French, Portuguese, and Spanish colonist were able to have new lands and opportunities, but the process millions of Native American were killed and enslaved

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

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

Imagine in 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, your family, and your neighbors

And you and your family and your neighbors fight back but are crushed 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 colonialism is: death, it is slavery; it is the end of one group and the expansion of another group