Colonialism in the Americas by

Tyrone

apgaeldenisecanale — 2025-02-26 07:38:44 UTC

They had found what for the Europeans was for another world.

gael

apgaeldenisecanale — 2025-02-26 07:39:05 UTC

Europeans were seeking new sources of wealth, especially gold and silver, and hoped to establish colonies that could provide raw materials and new markets for their goods.

Phoebe

Ap_account — 2025-02-26 07:47:16 UTC

The Europeans were supposed to find new trade routes to Asia, but the explorer Christoper Columbus encountered a land in 1492, he landed in the Caribbean Islands. Other explorers soon traveled in the mainland, not knowing it’s America. All they knew was it’s the “New World” that contained natural wealth The Europeans had desired for.

Xavier

Ap_account — 2025-02-26 07:50:18 UTC

The period of exploration and discovery soon became an international race to plant colonies around the world. The European countries of England, France, Spain, Portugal, and the Netherlands (Holland) vied with one another for nearly four centuries to gain economic advantages in overseas territories. They founded colonies in Africa, India, Southeast and East Asia, Oceania, and the Americas.

Europeans viewed the Americas as an enormous wilderness area with great economic potential. The Americas had already been settled, however, thousands of years earlier by many millions of people. These original occupants were the ancestors of the peoples now known collectively as the indigenous peoples of north america.