abstract
| - Colonialism is the foundation and maintenance of settlements in one territory by people from another territory. These colonies sovereignties are claimed by a metropole, from which the colonial population originates. Often this control is exercised by a governor of some kind, such as the Roman Praetor. Ultimately, colonialism deals with the relationship between metropole and colony, as well as colony and indigene. Like the Europeans in OTL, the Romans and the Danes began a period of establishing colonies in the New World during the IInd Millennium AD. These Europeans named the continent Columbia and Vinland respectivelyand each soon found that not only was it already inhabited but that some of its inhabitants were almost as technologically advanced as they were. This scenario led to a process of reverse colonization of Africa by some of the Columbians. Everything began with the colonization of Groenland in 957 CE by the Dane Erik the Wise, and from that point onwards, the process accelerated until the entire New World was claimed by one civilization or another by 1649 CE after the Mongol's annexation of Alyeska. European colonialism was one of the major causes of the Great War at the turn of the XVIIIth Century, on top of the dozen or so other minor wars which it caused beforehand. At present, nearly half of Columbia Australis is owned by foreigner, virtually all Caribbean Islands are owned by foreigners, and over a third of North Columbia is either owned by foreigners, or owned by a nation directly spawned by a foreign one. Of all non-Columbian nations, the Roman Empire owns the most land in the New World. The only nation in general that owns more Columbian land is the Mayan Conglomerate, and they are one of the continent's three native empires.
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