European countries colonized other lands in the 1500s due to lack of natural resources and overpopulation in Europe. This led to the colonization of the Americas by countries like England, France, Portugal, and Spain. However, the colonization had horrific consequences like genocide of the native Americans and introduction of African slavery. The European colonization of the Americas was one of the bloodiest times in human history due to death, slavery, and displacement of peoples that occurred.

1. Colonial History Notes, Part 2
Period 1
By Codey Ho

2. One reason many European
countries colonized other lands and
peoples is because many European
countries were running out of natural
resources.

3. 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 handle.

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

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

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

7. Image in 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.

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

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

10. And soon, you and most of your
family and your neighbors are
gone—killed, enslaved, intermarried,
or forced to live somewhere else.

11. This is what colonialism is: it is
death, it is slavery; it is the end of
one group and the expansion of
another group.