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Technology played a major role in European expansion because it had always been very difficult to accurately and safely navigate ships across vast distances of open ocean waters. As maps and navigation tools improved, explorers could travel longer and longer distances to find new undiscovered lands. Another grand technological advancement that allowed Europeans to colonize the world was the invention of firearms. If you happen to run into some unhappy indigenous people in your brand new colony it is much easier to tell them to get lost if you have a gun with you.

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