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

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

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

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

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

6. Imagine in this: men who you've never seen before come to your house and your neighbors and they
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
weapon.

9. This is what colonialism is: it is death, it is slavery it is the end of one group and the expansion for
another group.