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It was the exploitation of peoples that took them as only visitors, not conquerers at they thought of themselves. As hispaniola shown us and other places too. Might makes the right was justified for them, but not for the exploited.
Edit: whenever people thought of exploiting others and enslaving them, there only comes one time to do so, when overpowering and turmoil take over, as seen in america (the continent), india, africa, etc.
It is incorrect and presumptive to label all European exploration as exploitation.
E.G. during the 7 years war, the various tribes of the Ohio river valley almost had a treaty with Philidelphia and the English crown, but were cockblocked by the Iroquois, who wanted to be the exclusive native power brokers with the European powers.
Or, still sticking to that era, that one of the Intolerable Acts from the english crown to the rich colonists was that the existing native land was to not be infringed upon.
Or famously, that Captain Vancouver was very considerate, to the point that Hawaii voluntarily surrendered its soverignty because of him.
Then you have things like the Cherokee war, the founding of Illonois and the Hudson's Bay Company(in general) that are great examples of european exploitation.
I didn't label european exploration as exploitation, polinesians did it too, like to colombia in the 13th century probably. I have said america to mean the continent, this includes south and central america, as in latin america "america" means the whole stretching land, not north america as people in the US and Canada think. They exploited and stole from us, they exploited us for too long.
Edit: I'm talking about the colonization, exploitation, slavery (taking people from this land and from africa to work on plantations, factories, etc), land stealing, etc, that only comes from literally war. This happened from the Indian continent, to Africa, to here (in Suriname, Guiana, Africa, etc, there is a lot of people from the Indian subcontinent, because they were brought as slaves from the Indian subcontinent).
To be fair to Europe, the Romans and Ottomans did it to Europe.
But yeah, ita a culture of violence all the way down.