As the indigenous people of North America, Native Americans were colonized on their own land, the places to which they trace their social, cultural, and religious origins.

Colonization (British English: colonisation) is a process of establishing control over areas or peoples for foreign people to advance their trade, cultivation, exploitation and possibly settlement.

to take control of or settle in territories other than one’s own. Many other European powers were colonizing during the modern period besides France. When the British colonized in Australia, …

Peru was colonized by the Spanish in the 16th century. European nations set about violently invading and colonising large chunks of the globe. Some scientists believe that we will have to …

col·o·nized , col·o·niz·ing , col·o·niz·es v. tr. 1. To form or establish a colony or colonies in. 2. To migrate to and settle in; occupy as a colony.

Definition of colonize verb from the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. colonize something to take control of an area or a country that is not your own, especially using force, and send …

When an area is colonized by a type of plant, the plant grows there in large amounts.

The meaning of COLONIZATION is an act or instance of colonizing.

Colonized is the past participle form of the verb "colonize," which primarily means to establish control over a foreign territory or people, to settle among and establish political control over the …

COLONIZED definition: 1. past simple and past participle of colonize 2. to send people to live in and govern another…. Learn more.