WORLD HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -A colony is a territory subject to a form of foreign rule. Though dominated by the foreign colonizers, the rule remains separate to the original country of the colonizers, the metropolitan state (or “mother country"), within the shared imperialist administration.

Detailed explanation-2: -Settler colonies were areas outside Europe in which so many European immigrants voluntarily settled that their numbers were large enough to secure their political dominance, even if they were in a minority among the indigenous population.

Detailed explanation-3: -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.

Detailed explanation-4: -Colonial America was a vast land settled by Spanish, Dutch, French and English immigrants who established colonies such as St. Augustine, Florida; Jamestown, Virginia; and Roanoke in present-day North Carolina.