"COLONIAL HISTORY"(2)

BY:Celeste Garcia

One reason many European countries colonized other kinds and people is because many European countries where 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 handel.

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

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

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

Imagine this: men, who you've never seen before, come to 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 fight back but are crushed by the men 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: it is death, it is slavery; it is the end of one group and the expansion of another group.