Pros And Cons Of Colonizing South America

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In the 19th and 20th century the Europeans attempted to colonized the continent of Africa, but ended up having setbacks because of disease and lack of transportation. The year is 2030 and America is debating on if they should try to colonize South America like the Europeans did with Africa. The united states should colonize South America because the continent has a lot of valuable resources and the perfect climate for planting crops and grazing animals. Colonizing is smart because America can acquire valuable resources from it. From an article about colonization.“Diamond and gold were discovered in southern africa in the 1860s and 1880s. Suddenly adventurers from all parts of the world rushed in to make their fortunes” (world history patterns of interaction,2009,pg 778). Countries like South America that are struggling still have a lot of resources because they are to poor to harvest them.”marine fishers are the most important economic activity along south america's pacific coast”,national geographic,N.D., pg 2).Fish are found all over South America and are valuable in places in north America where it is hard to fish. Resources are one thing but there are …show more content…

Trees and the Nile river help South america with its economic growth(national geographic,N.D., pg 1).This means that if America colonizes in south america we are going to be taking away resources they need to be economically stable. South America is already growing faster than they should be so if we were to take their resources they would still be economically stable South America's economic growth over the last half century has made its cities expand fast.(national geographic,N.D., pg 2). South America is almost fully grown economically and does not need the resources to help it grow if that is the reason we are colonizing in the first

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