did it with sheer military power in a matter of decades, not disease ridden, lost greedy, ecclesiastical explorers searching for gold and spices. It took those European companies years to really settle any colony and they changed political borders of most of the populated world with slimey , two faced signing treaties to break them germ warfare, divide and conquer with no end on sight for consumption godless greed. In the name of the "holy" Roman Catholic Church.