colonization

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Although raised-field agriculture eventually ended -- likely because of population decline and social upheaval after European colonization -- this does not diminish the effectiveness of these systems.

From Science Daily

But as Atlantic colonization expanded, England—like Portugal, Spain, the Netherlands and France—gradually became more involved in the slave trade.

From The Wall Street Journal

The Vatican formally repudiated the “Doctrine of Discovery,” a legal concept that was used to justify colonization.

From New York Times

“But still, it’s a wonderful thing,” with lessons “on what colonization was and what it did,” he said.

From New York Times

In the Americas, for example, where a history of colonization, enslavement and subjugation explains why almost all the foreign ancestry in African American and Latin American individuals comes from European males.

From New York Times