European colonization of the Americas resulted in the killing of so many native people that it transformed the environment and caused the Earth’s climate to cool down, new research has found.

European colonization of the Americas resulted in the killing of so many native people that it transformed the environment and caused the Earth’s climate to cool down, new research has found.

At first glance, it looks like a nebula seen through the Hubble Telescope. But these expanding patches of flashing, colored light depict migration patterns across the North American continent ...

Discover why European powers rushed to colonize the New World driven by economic gain, ... glory, and God shaped the early foundations of American colonization. Simplified In Short.

European colonizers were thought to have brought leprosy to the Americas, but a new study reveals it existed there for thousands of years and spread by a recently discovered bacteria species.

European colonization accelerated erosion tenfold. Université catholique de Louvain. Journal Nature Communications DOI 10.1038/s41467-020-19744-3 ...

Between the 15th and 20th centuries, just 10 European countries colonized nearly the whole world. Colonization brought technological advancement, infrastructure, education, and medical care even ...

The early history of European colonization of America is often romanticized, but this is far from the messy truth. In reality, colonization was achieved by rival groups of settlers with competing ...

Columbus is credited with jumpstarting Spanish colonization that preceded the broader European colonization of the New World. In his diary, he noted that the natives "must be good servants and ...

Allegories of America have been used as colonial and nationalist propaganda since the Renaissance. Working in collaboration with the Amazonian/Brazilian artist Denilson Baniwa, the Getty Center in ...