That's an interesting perspective. I think it misses the true meaning of the word colony. Taken your initial explanation, that's exactly what happened. Took a b

That's an interesting perspective. I think it misses the true meaning of the word colony. Taken your initial explanation, that's exactly what happened. Took a bunch of people and set them up with resources with the intention of setting up shop in the new uncharted land. The reality is, a colony doesn't ever value the native population of the location it's setting up as it would the population of the colonizers. So in essence, colonies are just another form of conquest, but rather than immediately engage in war the tactic is to survey the the land, suss out the local populations, and once you have enough courage/strength dominate them. That was more or less the colonization playbook. The best example was India. The East India company eventually became the British Colony of India. What this ultimately does is it views the local inhabitants of the land not as equal valued humans, but either as a resource to be exploited or a nuisance to be removed from the ultimate goal of resource extraction for the Colonizing entity.