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Colonisation is taking control over lands already inhabited by native populations. People colonise country or lands to extend their territory, or to take over the political, economic and cultural life of the weaker country. In the past, colonisation was seen as a common thing but it is seen now as an invasion used with violence and terror. Colonisation would also mean to share a property of another and to develop relationships in some opinions.

The decline and collapse of the Roman Empire saw the large scale movement of people in Eastern Europe and Asia. This is seen as the beginning with moving around horsemen from Asia moving into the richer land to the west and forcing the people in the west to move further west and so on until eventually the Franks and their ilk were forced to invade the Roman Empire, beginning the Dark Ages. It was this period that saw the large scale movement of people establishing new colonies all over western Europe.The colonisation events saw the development of many of the modern day nations of Europe, the Franks in France and Germany and the Anglo-Saxons in England.