Before revision: During this time, the European empires of Spain, Portugal, Britain, France, Russia, the Netherlands, Denmark, and Sweden began to explore and claim the Americas and its natural resources and human capital, leading to the displacement, disestablishment, enslavement, sometimes even the genocide of the Indigenous peoples in the Americas, and the establishment of several settler colonial states.
After revision: During this time, the European empires of Spain, Portugal, Britain, France, Russia, the Netherl,,s, Denmark, and Sweden began to explore and claim the Americas and its natural resources and human capital, leading to the displacement, disestablishment, enslavement, sometimes even the genocide of the Indigenous peoples in the Americas, and the establishment of several settler colonial states.