colonizations
- plural of colonization.
Example Sentences
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Overall, the scientists found, biodiversity in a region today is highly related to the age and number of colonizations it has experienced.
From New York Times ● Oct. 17, 2018
Science fiction as a genre has long been obsessed with the possibility of reaching Mars, for both expeditions, such as Andy Weir’s novel The Martian, and colonizations, like in Kim Stanley Robinson’s Mars trilogy.
From The Verge ● Mar. 25, 2018
“What is clear is that the island has a complex settlement history involving multiple colonizations by different populations at different times,” Crowther says.
From Science Magazine ● May 30, 2016
But considering an island on the other side of the world — Britain — with its discontinuous record of human settlement over 900,000 years, I can also imagine episodic human colonizations on Flores.
From Nature ● Oct. 21, 2014
That is, everything about the Clovis phenomenon and its spread through the Americas corresponds to findings for other, unquestioned virgin-land colonizations in history.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
