10 sentences with 'colonisation'
Example sentences and phrases with the word colonisation and other words derived from it.
• « The island of Sicily was one of the oldest and most important areas for Greek colonisation. War broke out there between the two most powerful polis, Syracuse and Messina. »
• « 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. »
• « Meanwhile, in what eventually became Russia, Viking exploration, conquest and colonisation had begun even earlier. »
• « While the Vikings are important for a number of reasons - the expansion of medieval trade, the colonisation of various regions, the establishment of the first European contact with North America and the founding of the first Russian states - they are also included here simply because of their inherent interest; their raids and expansion were among the most surprising and sudden in world history. »
• « In practice, this meant that the Portuguese concentrated their colonisation efforts on Brazil, Africa and India, while the Spanish concentrated on the Caribbean, Central and South America. »
• « While the initial wave of European colonisation (mainly in the Americas) had been driven by the search for gold and the desire to convert foreigners to Christianity, European powers came to pursue colonies and trade routes in the name of commodities and the wealth they generated in the 17th century. »
• « On the other side of the world, though much less economically important than the Caribbean, North America remained a focus of European colonisation. »
• « While initial attempts at colonisation failed or struggled to survive (for example, almost all of the original settlers at Jamestown, Virginia, were dead by the time more arrived in 1610), the survivors discovered that they could grow at least one cash crop that would enrich them and tempt other Europeans to immigrate: tobacco. »
• « In others, however, colonisation amounted to genocide. Among the worst cases is that of Belgium. »
• « The British colonies were not alone in their struggle for independence, nor was the legacy of racial division left over from the period of colonisation. One of the most violent independence struggles of the decolonisation period in Africa took place in the French territory of Algeria. »