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a) English explorers sought to colonize new lands and bring new wealth to England; they gained fishing grounds in New foundland and after 1607, colonies on the eastern seaboard of North America and in Canada.
b) Why were Europeans interested in the Americas?
The Europeans were interested in colonizing America because of prestige, religious conversion, natural resources, and land expansion. The French, British, and Spanish empires were major colonizers in the Americas. ... In addition, the Spanish used their colonies to convert the native people to Christianity.
c) Having just read Adam Hochschild's King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa, and followed up on its reviews and what I could find about the Congo Free State on the internet (such as this website). I'm aghast at the democide I missed. It is probably over many millions, possibly 10 million murdered or more from 1885 when The Berlin Conference formally recognized the Congo Free State (now the Democratic Republic of the Congo-formerly Zaire) to 1908 when Belgium took it over as a colony. The Congo Free State was the private land, not a colony, of King Leopold II of Belgium to do with whatever he wanted.
And the massive killing did not stop when Belgium took it over. Remove the Endocrine glands evolved crazy Caucasoid so-called people, of monotheism-Christianity Christmas Santa Clause and Easter, off every African territories.