• first wave of European colonization began with Spanish and Portuguese conquests and explorations, and primarily involved the European colonization of...
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    the formation of ancient empires and the first wave of European colonization. The American Revolutionary War (1775–1783) and the collapse of the Spanish...
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  • During the Age of Discovery, a large scale colonization of the Americas, involving European countries, took place primarily between the late 15th century...
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    Leper colony (category History of medieval medicine)
    leprosy's near elimination in Europe by 1700. A growing number of cases following the first wave of European colonization, however, led to increased attention...
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    adoption of colonialism as a government policy in several European states. As such, it is sometimes synonymous with the first wave of European colonization. This...
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  • and early 20th centuries First European colonization wave, from the early 15th century to the early 19th century First Wave (TV series), a Sci-Fi Channel...
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    Protestantism and the beginning of the Age of Discovery and with it the onset of the first wave of European colonization. Its end is often marked by the...
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    The phenomenon of colonization is one that has occurred around the globe and across time. Various ancient and medieval polities established colonies -...
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    the first wave of European colonization. This group of colonists spread to the coast of the mainland and became the nexus of the French colony of Saint-Domingue...
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    Following the arrival of Europeans with the first wave of European colonization, tobacco became one of the primary products fueling European colonialism, and...
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    systems of Central Europe, Northern Europe, and the British Isles. In the Age of Discovery, the first wave of European colonization saw the adoption of Latin...
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    Bolama in 1753, and even so they did not start colonization. The Portuguese lack of interest in the island of Bolama and the Bijagós Archipelago opened opportunities...
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    Western European colonialism and colonization was the Western European policy or practice of acquiring full or partial political control over other societies...
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  • First-wave feminism was a period of feminist activity and thought that occurred during the 19th and early 20th century throughout the Western world. It...
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  • European emigration is the successive emigration waves from the European continent to other continents. The origins of the various European diasporas...
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  • German attempts at the colonization of the Americas consisted of German Venezuela (German: Klein-Venedig, also German: Welser-Kolonie), St. Thomas and...
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  • conquest and colonization. Portugal colonized parts of South America (Brazil, Uruguay), but also made some unsuccessful attempts to colonize North America...
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    contemporary name given to the colonization efforts of France in the 17th century in South America, around the line of Equator, before "tropical" had...
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    formation of ancient empires and the first wave of European colonization. Eventually, Lenin cancelled all earlier forms and began the history of Imperialism...
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    relations First wave of European colonization Historiography of the British Empire North Sea Empire Plantations of Ireland Scottish colonization of the Americas...
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    The British colonization of the Americas is the history of establishment of control, settlement, and colonization of the continents of the Americas by...
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  • colonization of the Americas with the establishment of trading posts and plantations, which preceded the much wider known colonization activities of the...
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    Ocean colonization (also blue colonization or ocean grabbing) is the exploitation, settlement or territorial claim of the ocean and the oceanic crust...
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    possibly settlement. Colonization functions through establishing a differentiation between the area and people of the colonized and colonizers, establishing...
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    Indigenous peoples of the Americas portal Spain portal First wave of European colonization European colonization of the Americas Spanish conquest of Guatemala...
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    history of Russia was the history of colonization, Shchapov described the process .... Two methods of colonization were primary: 'fur colonization,' with...
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  • of disease in triangular trade. Before the first wave of European colonization, the Indigenous peoples of the Americas and the Caribbean are thought to...
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    Creole (Panama) European colonization of the Americas Exploration by Christopher Columbus First wave of European colonization History of colonialism Miskito...
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    Space colonization (or extraterrestrial colonization) is the settlement or colonization of outer space and astronomical bodies. The concept in its broad...
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    The Spanish colonization of the Americas began in 1493 on the Caribbean island of Hispaniola (now Haiti and the Dominican Republic) after the initial...
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