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 and on, there was
much deforestation and poverty, and the
population was becoming too great for land
and government to handle.
3. By colonizing the Americans, for example,
English, French, Portuguese, and Spanish
colonist were able to have new lands and
opportunites, but 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 Americas to work, especially after
finding out that Native Americans would
just die in slavery.
6. Image 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, 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 neighbors
are gone, killed, enslaved, intermarried, or forced to
live somewhere else.
10. This is what colonialism is: it's death, it's slavery: and
it is the end of one group and the expansion of another
group