Scientists are also concerned that the struggles between natives and colonists will have a detrimental impact on the region's biodiversity.
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Civilisations there dated back thousands of years and European explorers and colonists did a great deal of damage to the native cultures.
Early French and English colonists worked and lived in the country's far reaches to trap beavers for their pelts.
Its complex cuisine, however, remains largely unknown, much to the frustration of locals who are inordinately proud of their country's fiery fare, which draws on influences from Portuguese and Dutch colonists as well as culinary heavyweight India, its closest neighbour.
At the same time, the relationship between the Jamestown colonists and the native Powhatan Indians had broken down.
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Lord Delaware brought even more colonists and enough provisions to last a year.
CNN: Researchers: Jamestown settlers resorted to cannibalism
He supported the American colonists and, as a dedicated Unitarian, was on the organising committee of the Society for the Abolition of the Slave Trade.
After lunch, walk off the slices around the New Haven Green, built in 1638 as a central square for early puritan colonists and used today as a park and festival grounds.
Founded in 1700 by Dutch colonists and stewarded by a long line of British mining magnates, the vineyards of Vergelegen had been left fallow by the time Anglo American bought the Western Cape estate in 1987.
But before you shake your head at the hopelessly bigoted attitudes of the remote past, it's worth considering that we have here today, in Surrey and Shropshire and Somerset, colonists of our own who are every bit as blinkered.
The French revolution was fought for the rights of the collective and the state, while the American colonists battled for themselves and the rights of individuals.
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Back in the late 1780s when Madison and Hamilton were trying to get the recalcitrant former colonists to line up and ratify the Constitution, they faced this issue squarely.
In the fall, the Powhatans waged war against these colonists, and launched a siege against the fort.
CNN: Researchers: Jamestown settlers resorted to cannibalism
The first winter was brutal and actually most of the colonists remained on board the Mayflower.
Fairways and greens may yield evidence to show what happened to the 118 colonists who vanished after the man who led a second expedition and also made the original map, John White, left for England to fetch supplies in 1587.
Sixteenth-century British colonists learned the method, and it eventually spread to the south, the part of the country most associated with barbecue today, around the 19th Century.
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But the silver that the colonists brought back increased the monetisation and commercialisation of the Eurasian economy and led to an increase in trade.
Colonists John Cotton, Richard Mather and John Eliot, who wrote the book, wanted a version of the psalms which they believed was closer to the original Hebrew than the ones they had brought with them from England.
That did not sit well at all with the few other colonists, among them nudists, sadists and Utopian philosophers, who had got there first.
This group, the Rattus rattus identified by Linnaeus when he started to classify the natural world, later hit Africa, the Americas and Australia, arriving on the ships of European colonists.
But the colonists took matters into their own hands, and subsequent laws codified actions already in practice.
They assemble in groups of three to five to plant crops, ship goods and raise edifices, compressing into a cheerful hour or two the wheeling and dealing that consumed the careers of 16th-century colonists in the Caribbean.
An interstellar ship would be like an ark, carrying everything the colonists might need, including greenhouses for growing food and sophisticated manufacturing facilities.
Setting aside the likelihood that this is a letter Palin has actually read, the fact still remains that the story of Paul Revere that Americans know and love is one of Revere riding across the countryside alerting the colonists that the redcoats were coming.
With no way to get food from the outside, the colonists resorted to eating horses, dogs, cats, rats, mice and snakes, Horn said, according to the accounts of George Percy, who was the president of Jamestown during this time.
CNN: Researchers: Jamestown settlers resorted to cannibalism
The permanent colonists who formed the fighting strength were escapees from a world of restricted social and economic opportunity at home.
Inspired by the Portuguese colonists' white bean stew, they created a concoction with the earthier (and in my book, tastier) black beans.
The ultimate goal, of course, is to let astronomers make a plausible estimate of the total number of planets in the galaxy, of the number that could conceivably support life, and of the fraction of those that could (at least in theory) sustain human colonists.
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