Colonization or colonisation is defined as "the act or process of sending people to live in and govern another country". The term "colonization" is sometimes used synonymously with the word "settlemen
A protest sign from the second half of the 20th century criticizing UN reaction to Soviet colonial expansion
A protest sign from the 1980s calling on the UN to abolish Soviet colonialism in the Baltic states
Sign on the JAO government headquarters
Photo of the first national flag assembled by a human on the Moon (Apollo 11, 1969). With colonization of space having been a critically discussed issue since the dawn of the space age, resulting in the Outer Space Treaty (1967), the flag was not to symbolize any territorial claims.
Colonialism is the practice of extending and maintaining political, social, economic, and cultural domination over a territory and its people by another people in pursuit of interests defined in an of
Colonization
…the colonization of Palestine through Jewish immigration, land acquisition, and permanent settlement. Whether this process should be classified as colonialism, and more specifically within the modern theoretical framework of settler colonialism, is the subject of scholarly debate. One body of scholarship…
A 1665 illustration of a Dutch East India Company factory in Hugli-Chuchura, depicting various elements of colonialism, including its hierarchies and impact on the colonized and their lands
The East Offering its Riches to Britannia, painted by Spiridione Roma for the boardroom of the British East India Company
Dutch family in Java, 1927
Harbour Street, Kingston, Jamaica, c. 1820