colonization
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Several heads of state of ex-colonies have requested an apology for colonization and the transatlantic slave trade, which profited British royals for centuries.
From Barron's ● Oct. 30, 2026
They’ll do everything from bolting together Cybercabs to mowing your lawn, from tending bars to caring for the elderly and, naturally, assisting in the colonization of the moon and Mars.
From Slate ● Oct. 19, 2026
She believes so much of the judgment on both sides is a lingering effect of colonization.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 2026
Beyond revising historical population figures, the study highlights the long-lasting consequences of colonization for Indigenous Australians.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 14, 2026
Thus, early Australians and New Guineans were probably capable of intentionally traveling over water to visible islands, and were using watercraft sufficiently often that the colonization of even invisible distant islands was repeatedly achieved unintentionally.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
Overall, the scientists found, biodiversity in a region today is highly related to the age and number of colonizations it has experienced.
From New York Times ● Oct. 17, 2018
Science fiction as a genre has long been obsessed with the possibility of reaching Mars, for both expeditions, such as Andy Weir’s novel The Martian, and colonizations, like in Kim Stanley Robinson’s Mars trilogy.
From The Verge ● Mar. 25, 2018
“What is clear is that the island has a complex settlement history involving multiple colonizations by different populations at different times,” Crowther says.
From Science Magazine ● May 30, 2016
But considering an island on the other side of the world — Britain — with its discontinuous record of human settlement over 900,000 years, I can also imagine episodic human colonizations on Flores.
From Nature ● Oct. 21, 2014
That is, everything about the Clovis phenomenon and its spread through the Americas corresponds to findings for other, unquestioned virgin-land colonizations in history.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
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Human Geography - Middle School
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