2007-02-14 20:11:09 · 6 answers · asked by mounti 1 in Arts & Humanities ➔ History
No one might know. When you say "colony", this meant that people from a nation migrate to another land to develop it, without severing ties with their place of origin. The ancient, pre-literate greeks are famous for their colonies. The pheonicians prior to the greeks have been doing it. The ancient egyptians, chinese, and sumerians have been doing it. Since the dawn of civilization, people are already migrating to new lands carrying their cultures and institutions with them, sometimes without severing ties with their place of origin. No one really is sure who started the first colony.
But if you were asking "who are the first large scale organized colonist", I would say that the Spaniards and Englishmen are the first colonist who immigrated enmass to the New World.
2007-02-14 20:29:00 · answer #1 · answered by Henry 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Interesting question, and I'm not sure it is possible to give a straight answer to it, but I'll have a go.
I would say that the answer is that parts of the Middle East from present Iraq across and into Egypt could be deemed to be the first as they were brought into the Sumerian empire by Sargon around 2300 BCE. The reason I say that this might not be a straight answer is that these territories were absorbed into the empire and therefore might not strictly be called colonies.
2007-02-14 20:35:45 · answer #2 · answered by the_lipsiot 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Greeks had colonies eg Syracuse, Sicily was a colony of corinth BC 732, but Greek colonies were independent from the start.
2007-02-14 23:26:25 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Depending on your thinking it was either 1585 with 100 English men who tried to settle Roanoke Island, they failed and left in 1586. The next was actually men women and children -- 420 years ago this coming August at the same spot -- Roanoke Island . They did better for awhile.
But the 1st sucessful colony was also in the 1500's at St. Augustine Florida -- it has flourished ever since and is the oldest lasting settlement in USA. Check these places out on the WEB, it's VERY INTERSTING !!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The very oldest colonies were those of the Norsemen -- Lief Erickson in North America in the 1000's !!!!
2007-02-14 21:01:28 · answer #4 · answered by BARBIE 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
french colony!
2007-02-21 16:54:20 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
what ????????? um were vikings vinland and mabye after that the templars uhhhhhhhhhhhhh then john cabot newfoundland or cgood ol chris in the caribbian be more specific i would love to answer that question for u
2007-02-22 13:19:51 · answer #6 · answered by whomp a doodle doodle do 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋