6 sentences with “colonise”

Not long after New Zealand had been widely publicised about in Britain, attempts were made to colonise New Zealand. The British came to New Zealand in 1840.

The pharaohs sent communities of Egyptians to colonise the conquered lands, both to pacify those lands and to exploit the natural resources in order to increase royal revenues.

After the Adams-Onís Treaty of 1819 defined the border between the United States and Mexico, the Spanish Mexican government began actively encouraging Americans to colonise its northern province.

Moreover, not only were African states able to fight Europeans successfully, but African diseases made it impossible for large numbers of Europeans to colonise or occupy much of African territory.

The Dutch distinguished themselves as commercial leaders in the 17th century, and their mode of colonisation was based on powerful corporations: the Dutch East India Company, formed in 1602 to trade in Asia, and the Dutch West India Company, established in 1621 to colonise and trade in the Americas.

In 1845, New York newspaper editor John O'Sullivan introduced the concept of "manifest destiny" to describe the popular idea of America's special role in the expansion of the continent: the divine right and duty of white Americans to seize and colonise the American West, thereby spreading Protestant and democratic values.