During this period of time, several European empires-primarily Spain, Portugal, Britain, France, and the Netherlands-began to explore and claim the natural resources and human capital of the Americas, resulting in the displacement, disestablishment, enslavement, and genocide of the Indigenous peoples of the Americas, and the establishment of several settler-colonial states. 1000 CE, the later and more well-known wave of European colonization of the Americas took place in the American continent between about 1492 CE and 1800 CE, during the Age of Exploration. Īlthough the Norse had explored and colonized northeastern North America c. European discovery and colonization had disastrous effects on the Indigenous peoples of the Americas and their societies. American Discovery Viewed by Native Americans ( Thomas Hart Benton, 1922).
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