How Were the Americas Colonized?

Podcast: The Forgotten Timeline · AC Wilson

Opublikowano: 2026-10-19

Christopher Columbus's historic voyage in 1492 initiated a massive wave of European expansion that transformed the Americas through violent conquest, forced religious conversion, and the devastating introduction of foreign diseases that decimated indigenous populations. Spain quickly established a vast and lucrative empire centered on gold and silver mining, while Portugal claimed Brazil and developed a dominant sugar economy driven by the transatlantic slave trade. Although competing powers like Britain, France, and the Netherlands initially faced severe struggles with harsh weather, starvation, and native resistance, they eventually carved out their own influential colonies through fur trading, agriculture, and plantation slavery. Over the...