Question

1. WHY DID EUROPEAN EXPLORERS BELIEVE THEY COULD SIMPLY CLAIM LANDS FOR THEIR HOME COUNTRIES, EVEN THOUGH THESE LANDS WERE ALREADY POPULATED?

Answer 1

Step-by-step explanation:

This is because they believed that they were superior to whatever culture was living there already, and also, normally what people thought of the Europeans was as if they were gods, so that added to the domination.