This power point contains information regarding colonization.

1. *Colonization*
Matthew McHolland
History 150
Professor Arguello

2. **Colonization: A Major Theme**
• After reading the book “Defenders of the Fait,” by James Reston Jr, I discovered
that the major theme of this book was colonization. Therefore, I decided to create
a power point with relation to this topic so that I can expand and simply focus on
such potent theme.
• Colonization is literally the spreading of species into a new habitat. In this case, the
specie that I am going to talk about are humans.
• Historical colonization: The two periods of time that I found the most interesting
are the classical period and the middle ages.

3. ***Classical Period Colonization***
In ancient times, maritime nations such as the city-states of
Greece and Phoenicia often established colonies to farm
uninhabited land. In classical times, land suitable for farming was
often claimed by migratory "barbarian tribes" who lived by
hunting and gathering. To ancient civilized people, the land
simply appeared vacant. However this does not mean that
conflict did not exist between the colonizers and native peoples.

4. ***Classical Period Colonization***
• Another period of colonization in Ancient times was
from the Romans. The Roman Empire conquered a
large part of Western Europe, North Africa and West
Asia. In North Africa and west Asia they were often
conquering civilized peoples, but as they moved
north into Europe they mostly encountered rural
tribes with very little in the way of cities. In these
areas, waves of Roman colonization often followed
the conquest of the areas.

5. ***Classical Period Colonization***
• Many of the current cities around Europe
began as Roman colonies, such as the German
city Köln (Cologne), which was originally called
Colonia Claudia by the Romans; and the
British capital city of london, which the
Romans founded as Londinium.

6. ***Middle Ages Colonization***
• The decline and collapse of the Roman Empire saw the large scale
movement of people in Eastern Europe and Asia. This is largely seen
as beginning with nomadic horsemen from Asia moving into the
richer pasture land to the west and so forcing the people there to
move further west and so on until eventually the Goths were forced
to cross into the Roman Empire, resulting in continuous war with
Rome which played a major role in the fall of the Roman Empire. It
was this period that saw the large scale movement of peoples
establishing new colonies all over western Europe, the events of
this time saw the development of many of the modern day nations
of Europe, the Franks in France and Germany and the Anglo-Saxons
in England.

7. ***Middle Ages Colonization***
• In West Asia, during Sasanid Empires, some Persian people did some
colonizing in Yemen and Oman.
• The Vikings of Scandinavia also carried out a large scale colonization. The
Vikings are best known as raiders, setting out from their original homelands in
Denmark, southern Norway and southern Sweden, to pillage the coastlines of
northern Europe. In time, the Vikings began trading, rather than raiding, and
established colonies. The Vikings discovered Iceland and establishing colonies
before moving onto Greenland, where they briefly held some colonies. The
Vikings also launched an unsuccessful attempt at colonizing an area they
called Vinland, which is probably at a site now known as L'Anse aux Meadows,
Newfoundland and Labrador, on the eastern coastline of Canada.