It is hard to say just how the Europeans took over the New World and ruled globally, but there's always this one reason that really personally blows my mind. It worked for them but it's not quite the very nice way of taking care of business. It is how they took over the New World and became rich off of killing and brutally torturing human beings. Stripping "these savages" of all their gold, gold the savages found no value in anyways. At first they were willing to work because they were given other goods in exchange for their work (fetching of gold). Also they were given a 'necklace' if they produced enough goods. If they didn't produce enough goods (like when they ran out) then they didn't receive a necklace, which meant the savage worthless addition to the world was killed. Then came the torturing, the brutality, and the extinction of the New World people when either @ they had no more gold or goods, or B: they tried to run or fight the Europeans. Oh yes! This was a large upbringing for the European expansion but it's not the main reason that the Europeans gained so much power and territory.
             The settlement of the New World (or the Americas) brought many different items in from Europe. This strengthened the European's economy by exporting fruits, insects, livestock, grains, manufactured goods, guns and much more. This gave them very much power especially considering that the Europeans just killed off thousands and thousands of "savages." They didn't stop the killing there though. The Europeans also brought diseases to the Americas that the Americas were never introduced to. That too killed many.
             Then with all of this money and power the Europeans expanded a lot by buying and selling African slaves. While the Europeans were were establishing colonies in the Americas their demand for cheap labor grew. The slaves brought skills in the fields of sugar, tobacco, rice and mu...