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 process resulted in the genocide and deaths of millions of Native Americans, as well as the enslavement of surviving Native Americans and the importation of African slaves to work in their place. Colonialism thus represented a horrific period in human history defined by death, slavery, and the replacement of indigenous populations with European colonizers.

1. Colonial History
Notes, Part 2
Analine Hernandez
Culture&Geography
Mr.Meza Period: 5
March 27,2012

2. Define:
Genocide: The deliberate killing of a large
group, those of a particular ethnic group or
nation.
Natural Resources: Materials or substance
such as minerals, forests, water, & fertile land
that occur in nature and can be used for
economic gain.

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

4. 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.

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

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

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

8. 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.

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

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

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

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