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The Americas (and to a lesser extent Africa) were always going to be colonized. The combination of a lack of easily domesticable large animals native to your region strands you basically at the bottom of the tech tree until someone brings over cattle, horses, etc, to do the heavy lifting required for mass agriculture and labor. It also makes you insanely vulnerable to diseases (this is more mitigated in Africa.) Not to mention there's at least a 12,000 year head start before people even got to North America

The first Eurasians who got a foothold in the Americas was going to spread like wildfire and take over, and geographically the people who were best situated to get there and start colonies were Europeans. And once you take over the Americas, you have a massive resource tile to springboard off of and start taking over everyone else. 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus, is a good read on this topic, it basically goes over how stacked the deck was for anyone to colonize the Americas against the indians.