But neither metric is accurate - the former tends to overestimate population sizes, since early colonizers wanted to advertise riches of newly discovered lands to European financial backers.

Geography endowed Africa with one last temptation for European colonizers – natural resources, like copper, diamonds and gold. So, unable to build their own societies in the tropics, European ...

While this opened up economic and political opportunities for European powers, the colonization of the New World led to the exploitation of its indigenous peoples, often violently and eventually ...

He noted that his critique of European colonization shouldn’t be misinterpreted as hatred for European people. “I’m against European colonisation and imperialism but that does not mean that ...

Historians have recognized a phenomenon of the Black Legend, a historical phenomenon in which non-Spanish historians attempt to portray the Spanish as the most brutal European colonizers.