The answer is lost in obscure early history, probably long before writing existed.
Every major group, tribe, or nation of people has almost certainly expanded its territorial boundaries at the expense of smaller, weaker neighbors. Sometimes these smaller groups were absorbed, sometimes expelled, and in many other cases reduced to a subservient status or caste. The largest groups of Asian peoples, like the Chinese, the ancient Indian Aryans, etc., expanded over weaker peoples, as did powerful Western Hemispheric groups like the Aztec, the Incas, and others. Ethnolinguistic patterns show an arc of conquest in Africa that happened many centuries ago, extending from north to south. The European process of colonization is very clearly recorded from well before the time of Alexander and the Greeks. The Romans established settler colonies all over Europe, including Britain.
About 500 years ago Europe's technical ascendancy in certain fields, like ship construction, allowed some Europeans, most notably the Dutch, Portuguese, Spanish, English, and French, to establish both settler colonies and colonies of occupation overseas, in the Americas, Asia, and Africa.
Though greatly reduced in scope, elements of the colonization process continue in the 21st Century. Examples include Israel in the Palestinian West bank, and the Han Chinese in Tibet. United Nations resolutions and laws which forbid the acquisition of land and political annexation through military conquest compel nations like China and Israel to make various claims to the territories they seize, but these places are colonized nevertheless.
its always been around
The first Europeans to step foot on Canada were the Vikings, although the French were the first to start colonizing, first in Acadia (modern day Nova Scotia) then Champlain started colonizing parts of Quebec in 1608.
Spain and Portugal started colonizing the Americas around 1500.
Essecially America started by European exploration and the colonizing of the Americas by Columbus and England.
The British colonized Australia or Oceania first.
The first English settlers in Virginia were unprepared for colonizing Virginia because the winter was longer and colder than they expected. The farming techniques they had used in England were not successful in Virginia.
England became a colonizing country mainly for profit.
Lichens are the dominant organism at first.
The country colonizing another country. The captives will cry for an independence but the colonizing country will prevent it from happening.
The first Thanksgiving was celebrated by the Pilgrims to express their gratitude for having survived the difficulties of colonizing a new land.
because they had claimed it first. i think? ahaha (im a fisleranian. LOL)
Aruba is not a colonizing country. Specifically, Aruba never has been a colonial power. It never has been a colonizing nation. Instead, it was a longtime colony of the European Kingdom of the Netherlands, of which it is now a constituent but autonomous country.
his voyages started a vast cultural exchange between the two hemisphere