One reason many European countries colonized other lands

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

By colonizing the Americas, for example English, French, Portuguese, and Spanish colonist were able to have new lands and opportunities, but in the process millions of Native Americans were killed.

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

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

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