CIVILIZATION
MINOAN
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a group of people who settle in a new land, but keep ties to their homeland
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A smaller city-state only found on an island
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land with water on 3 sides.
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A city and the land that surrounds it.
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Detailed explanation-1: -A colony is a group of people who inhabit a foreign territory but maintain ties to their parent country. While the group of people can be considered a colony, so too can the territory itself.
Detailed explanation-2: -A colony is a group of people from one country who build a settlement in another territory, or land. They claim the new land for the original country, and the original country keeps some control over the colony. The settlement itself is also called a colony.
Detailed explanation-3: -The term colony originates from the ancient Roman colonia, a type of Roman settlement. Derived from colon-us (farmer, cultivator, planter, or settler), it carries with it the sense of ‘farm’ and ‘landed estate’. Furthermore the term was used to refer to the older Greek apoikia (Ancient Greek: , lit.