1. One reason many European countries
were running out of natural resources.

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

3. 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 fporced to

4. 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

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

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

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

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

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

10. this is what colonialism is: it is death, it is slavery; it is the end of one group and the expansion
of another group