In Past Centuries European Nations Colonized Countries in
Territories colonized by European American and Japanese powers since 1492. Distribution of wealth 62. 500 Years Of European Colonialism In One Animated Map Vox In the years 1500 1900 Europe colonized all of North and South America and Australia most of Africa. . Some famous alliances were formed during. Mostly Spain Portugal and Great britain. The Netherlands Great Britain and France. European expansion during the 1600s and 1700s was often driven by economic and technological forces. Augustine Florida then British in 1587 when the Plymouth Company established a settlement that they dubbed Roanoke in present-day Virginia. They wanted to gain monopoly over the spice trade as this trade was very valuable to the Europeans due to high demand for various spices such as pepper cinnamon nutmeg and clovesThis demand led to the arrival of Portuguese Spanish Dutch and later French and. The invasion of the North Ameri...