8 sentences with 'settlers'
Example sentences and phrases with the word settlers and other words derived from it.
• « However, it was not Renaissance ideas that had the greatest impact on the world at that time. Instead, it was European soldiers, settlers and, more consequently, diseases. »
• « With the European settlers came a spate of epidemics to which the native peoples of the Americas had no resistance, and within a few generations the vast majority - perhaps as many as 90 per cent - of Native Americans perished as a result. »
• « Greek settlers sometimes married local inhabitants upon arrival, a practice that is not surprising given that many settler expeditions were almost all young men. »
• « Rome's great rival in this early period of expansion was the North African city of Carthage, founded centuries earlier by Phoenician settlers. »
• « The Vikings also established areas in England that would help shape the English language and literary traditions (for example, although written in the language of the Anglo-Saxons, the famous epic poem Beowulf is about Viking settlers who had recently converted to Christianity). »
• « However, the attempt at colonisation failed, most likely due to conflict between the Vikings and the Native American peoples they encountered, so the peoples of the Americas were spared further European settlers for nearly five centuries. »
• « Note here that the Dutch seizure of the Cape of Good Hope was the historical origin of the modern nation of South Africa - these were the first permanent European settlers. »