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by mr_toad
1365 days ago
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I think that the American colonies were more like the Latin colinia, deriving from the Latin for cultivate. It implies a large population movement, and exploitation, not just a conquest. It was more like the Saxon colonisation of the UK, which replaced the native Celtic population, rather than the Norman conquest, (or the colonisation of India) which just replaced the oligarchy. What came quite a lot later in America , was the attempt to assert more direct Imperial rule over the colonies. |
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