One reason many European countries colonized other lands and peoples is

because many European countries were 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 land and government to handle.

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.

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 Americans would just die in slavery.

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.

Then they start killing or enslaving you, your family, and your neighbors.

And you, your family, and your neighbors fight back but are crushed by the men's superior weapons.

And soon, you and most of your family and neighbors are gone, killed, enslaved, intermarried, or forced to

live somewhere else.

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