SETTLING NORTH AMERICA 1497 1732
FOUNDING OF THE NEW ENGLAND COLONIES
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Detailed explanation-1: -col·o·ny ˈkäl-ə-nē plural colonies. : a group of people sent out by a state to a new territory. : the territory in which such colonists live. : a distant territory belonging to or under the control of a nation.
Detailed explanation-2: -A colony is a country or area under the full or partial political control of another country, typically a distant one, and occupied by settlers from that country.
Detailed explanation-3: -The word “colony” comes from the Latin word colōnia, used as concept for Roman military bases and eventually cities. This in turn derives from the word colōnus, which was a Roman tenant farmer.
Detailed explanation-4: -A country that has many colonies is often called an empire. A colonist is a person from the metropolitan state who lives in a colony. Colonial means having to do with a colony. Colonial land is land that belongs to the colony. A colonist is sometimes called a colonial.