Talk:First wave of European colonization

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 * Articles for deletion/The first European colonization wave (15th century-19th century)

This article and even concept is unsourced
What does this first wave include??? Algeria? Not Australia? New Zealand? The Canary Islands and Ceuta? Does it include the Ottoman conquests in the Middle East? It all seems pretty dodgy to me. Should be deleted. Asilah1981 (talk) 16:06, 28 September 2016 (UTC)

No such thing as United Kingdom in 1550
On the first map, The Kingdom of England and Wales and their colonies in America are described as "United Kingdom", which didn't exist until 1707. It should read "Kingdom of England" or "Kingdom of England and Wales". Ralphhalgas (talk) 13:36, 23 October 2021 (UTC)

This Article has to go
This article is complete WP:OR and WP:SYNTH, and it is inaccurate in numerous details. The Title does not indicate that this is only about colonization of the Americas, only the hint and infobox do. The title and article ignores Norse explorations before the Castilian/Aragonese ("Spanish") and Portuguese conquests. The Netherlands, France, and England are not Northern Europe. The map confuses England with the later United Kingdom. Despite being only about the Americas, one section suddenly elaborates on India, as though someone wanted to make the Article reflect the Title. The lede functions as the first section instead of introducing the subject. "The Role of the Church" is bad as a first section: the full elaboration of the subject should be the first section. The entire article reads more like US-centric pseudohistory, or maybe the homework of a middle-school student. &#9798; CUSH &#9798; 06:26, 10 June 2023 (UTC)


 * I agree with every point made here.
 * Your point regarding the anachronistic projection of present-day national identities several hundred years into the past is a particularly sharp observation.
 * Stripped of any pretence of international context, the actual historical focus of this article — the European discovery, colonisation, and economic exploitation of what was once called the New World — is already well-documented elsewhere on Wikipedia, and to a far higher standard at that. Foxmilder (talk) 12:26, 24 January 2024 (UTC)