1. Colonial History Notes
Part 2
Alexandra Roybal
Culture/Geography
Mr. Meza
March 26, 2012

2. One reason many European countries colonized other lands and people is because many Eurpean
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 Americas, for example, English, French, Portuguese, and Spanish colonists 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 homeland.

5. Indeed, the European civilization of the Americans 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. Imagine 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 enslave you, yor family, and 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: death, it is slavery; it is the end of one group and the expansion of another
group.