When Europeans arrived in the Americas, they caused so much death and disease that it changed the global climate, a new study finds. European settlers killed 56 million indigenous people over ...

Discover why European powers rushed to colonize the New World driven by economic gain, religious missions, national rivalry, ...

European colonizers killed so many Native Americans that it changed the global climate, ... European settlers killed 56 million indigenous people over about 100 years in South, ...

Each additional century of European colonization is associated with a 40 percent boost in income today and a reduction in infant mortality of 2.6 deaths per 1,000 births.

The diseases brought to North America by Columbus and other colonizers killed 90% of indigenous populations, sparking a global cooling.

For most of the time that we’ve heard of it, soccer’s World Cup has been, in name and reality, a misnomer. It wasn’t about the world, per se. It was about Europe — and its colonialization ...

Between the 15th and 20th centuries, just 10 European countries colonized nearly the whole world. Colonization brought technological advancement, infrastructure, education, and medical care even ...

192 examples of these spines reconstituted after burial were found. This would have happened around the time of European colonization.

In the middle of a dry landscape, the remnants of Tolay Lake remains green. An early European colonizer drained the lake and planted crops on the fertile ground in the 1800s. (Amy Mayer/KQED) Tolay ...

European colonizers killed so many Native Americans that it changed the global climate, researchers say ...