European countries colonized other lands like the Americas in the 1500s due to declining natural resources and overpopulation in Europe. This allowed colonists from countries like England, France, Portugal, and Spain to gain new lands and opportunities, but resulted in the genocide, enslavement, and displacement of millions of Native Americans. The European colonization of the Americas was one of the bloodiest and most horrific periods in human history due to the immense suffering inflicted upon indigenous populations through violence, slavery, and loss of their homelands.

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

2. in Europe by the 1500's and on, there was much
deforestration and poverty, and the population was
becoming too great for the 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 opportunities, 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. Besides the genocide of Native Americans, European
colonist brought African slaves to the Americans to work,
especially after finding out that Nstive Americans would just
die in slavery.

6. Imagine 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.

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

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.