colonization
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First published in 1902, then updated in 1905, the report reveals the country’s linguistic history spanning colonization, independence and westward expansion.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 11, 2026
By using only part of the original painting and omitting the mission, I’m reclaiming space for Black and brown spirituality while acknowledging that this land existed long before colonization.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 5, 2026
The company's Starship rocket -- whose latest iteration could launch Thursday -- is explicitly designed with Mars colonization in mind.
From Barron's ● May 21, 2026
A good share are actively planning for Mars colonization.
From Slate ● May 8, 2026
Just as in the Americas, in Australia all of those few candidates except the red kangaroo became extinct around the time of the continent’s first colonization by humans.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
Overall, the scientists found, biodiversity in a region today is highly related to the age and number of colonizations it has experienced.
From New York Times ● Oct. 17, 2018
Science fiction as a genre has long been obsessed with the possibility of reaching Mars, for both expeditions, such as Andy Weir’s novel The Martian, and colonizations, like in Kim Stanley Robinson’s Mars trilogy.
From The Verge ● Mar. 25, 2018
“What is clear is that the island has a complex settlement history involving multiple colonizations by different populations at different times,” Crowther says.
From Science Magazine ● May 30, 2016
But considering an island on the other side of the world — Britain — with its discontinuous record of human settlement over 900,000 years, I can also imagine episodic human colonizations on Flores.
From Nature ● Oct. 21, 2014
That is, everything about the Clovis phenomenon and its spread through the Americas corresponds to findings for other, unquestioned virgin-land colonizations in history.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
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Human Geography - Middle School
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