US settlers purchased land in order to start plantations.
US plantation owners dominated Hawaiian politics.
The US began to import many goods from Hawaii.
Yes iron was used extensively by the Sumerians.
In the beginning of the age of discovery, England and France were looking for a new path to get to Asia to trade. But after they found the America’s and the West Indies, colonization for more for power. The more colonies each country could establish, the more power the country would have. A lot of the colonies were also making the home countries lots of money from the fur trade and from cash crops and from the Colombian exchange.
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One result of overpopulation is not having enough homes to house people, intense road traffic, and crowded public areas.