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How did the negative impact of European colonization outweigh the positive effects?

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The poor treatment of native cultures eclipsed the economic improvements brought by European colonization.

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European colonizers wiped out the majority of the native populations they encountered, whether by enslaving them, killing them directly, or infecting them with European diseases. 
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