7 sentences with “colonised”

Britain was one of two great powers - France the other - that colonised parts of North America's eastern seaboard.

Africa had never been colonised by Europeans before the 19th century, except for relatively small territories along the coasts.

Originally populated by Slavic tribal groups, Swedish Vikings called Rus colonised and then mixed with the native Slavs in the course of the 9th century.

However, it did lead to wars around the world that were part of the Cold War scenario but also involved conflicts between the colonisers and the colonised.

Like the Ottoman Empire, Persia was not formally colonised by a European power, but Europeans were still able to dictate international policy in the region.

Meanwhile, Scotland was largely Presbyterian (Scottish Calvinist), and Ireland, which had been colonised by the English from the 16th century onwards, was overwhelmingly Catholic.

In turn, the Greeks' immediate knowledge of the world extended to the shores of the Mediterranean, the Black Sea, Egypt and Persia, for these were the areas they had colonised or with which they were in contact through trade.