WORLD HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -A colony is a piece of land controlled by another country. The metropolitan state is the country that owns the colony. The phrase dependent territory is now used instead of colony.

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: -A dependent territory, dependent area, or dependency (sometimes referred as an external territory) is a territory that does not possess full political independence or sovereignty as a sovereign state, yet remains politically outside the controlling state’s integral area.

Detailed explanation-4: -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-5: -To colonize is to settle in, and take control of, land outside your own borders. Usually, a large, powerful country colonizes a territory or area that’s much less powerful.