European countries colonized other lands in the 1500s due to dwindling natural resources and pollution at home. As they colonized the Americas, millions of Native Americans were killed, enslaved, or forced from their lands, making it a horrific period in history. European colonists also brought African slaves to the Americas to work, especially after Native Americans proved to die in slavery. Colonialism involved invading communities, killing or enslaving the inhabitants, and taking over their lands and resources through violence and warfare.

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2. One reason many European countries colonize
other lands and people 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 pollution was
becoming too great for the land and government to
handle.

4. By colonizing the Americas, 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 neighbor's house and
they all have as much weapons as they can carry.

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

9. And you and your family and your neighbors fight
back but are crushed by the 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.