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  •  i agree (none / 0)

    but i would use the words conquor and conquest rather than colonize.  colonization can take place in uninhabited places.  when outsiders move into an inhabited community and take over, it is  conquest.

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    by artemisia on Mon Feb 21, 2005 at 12:54:56 AM PDT

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    •  interesting distinction (none / 0)

      My first thought was that conquest was the immediate action and that colonization took place over a longer time span. Sort've like invasion and occupation. I'm not sure though that conquest wouldn't also apply to uninhabited lands. The Old World explorers thought of themselves as conquerors AND managed to convince themselves that the lands were uninhabited because they found only "savages." And this profile of Sir Edmund Hillary describes him as the "conqueror of the North Pole" even though it certainly wasn't colonized.

      Not criticizing, just word-playing.

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      by hono lulu on Mon Feb 21, 2005 at 01:16:20 AM PDT

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