2. In Europe by the 1500's and on, there was much
deforestation and poverty, and the population was
becoming too great of the land and government to
handle.
3. 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 fporced to leave their land.
4. 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