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Should South America Be Colonized Essay

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America recently has made an announcement on whether or not they want to colonize South America and do whatever it is that they want with it. Every continent deserves to run themselves and if they need assistance they would most likely say something or show that they need it. No continent should lose the freedom of running itself or being taken by another continent.South America has gone many years without any assistance from any countries and have adapted to their everyday lifestyles and cultures. South America should not be colonized by America because colonization destroyed Africa a long time ago and Africa has not been the same since. Also because America could destroy their economies, homes, families, and ways of living. One of the reasons why South America should not be colonized by America because it could be destroyed like Africa was a long time ago by Europe. Africa had been colonized by Europe a long time ago in the eighteen and nineteen hundreds. Because of this, Africa has lost a lot of farming land for growing crops and their independence for themselves and families. “Africans lost control of their land and their independence”.(World History:Patterns of Interactions, 2009, pg.784). Africa has also had difficulties with being able to sharing their …show more content…

Before colonization, “ with tools of iron, farmers were able to cultivate more land, thereby making it possible to feed larger populations with fewer land resources”(Things fall apart, 2012, pg. 1). Nigeria for example, had their own way of growing crops and and feeding their people so they could get through everyday of living and do whatever they could to provide for their families. If places like Nigeria had strong economies before colonization, why would South America want that for their country? South America’s economy isn’t great as it is, so why let America make it

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