How Colonisation Changed the World

European colonisation had, obviously, an enormous impact on the world; much of its population wouldn't exist today had it not been for the 'three Gs'. North America would still be a vast, un-known, un-explored and un-advanced territory. Or would it? Who is to say that the Native Americans would not have eventually developed much of the same technology we have today, while still upholding their rituals and beliefs in nature? Maybe everything would have been eco-friendly from the get-go, and we would not have to rush and correct our mistakes, as well as the mistakes of the people who came before us. Also I'm sure that one or two tribes would have realized the importance of foreign trade. I think that Native Americans were unprepared for the arrival of white settlers. Maybe if Europeans had decided to explore a few hundred years later, Native Americans would have been maybe a little less naïve about their expectations.

Other areas of the world would be just as different as North America had colonisation never happened. South America would have also been home-ruled by indigenous people, Aboriginals would encompass the entire country of Australia, and slavery- at least, the enslavement of Africans by Europeans- would obviously never have happened. Everything we know today would have been in some shape or form different.