Colonization is a process of establishing control over foreign territories or peoples for the purpose of exploitation and possibly settlement, setting up coloniality and often colonies, commonly pursued and maintained by colonialism.
A protest sign from the second half of the 20th century criticising U.N. reaction to Soviet colonial expansion
A protest sign from the second half of the 20th century calling on U.N. to abolish Soviet colonialism in the Baltic states
Sign on the JAO government headquarters
Artist conception of astronauts working outside, near a large modular habitat
Settler colonialism occurs when colonizers invade and occupy territory to permanently replace the existing society with the society of the colonizers.
Boer nomads - Cape Colony, South Africa
Boer family traveling by covered wagon circa 1900
"Indian Land For Sale" by the U.S. Department of the Interior (1911)