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A settlement is a place where people are just starting to come and live. It is a place where nobody of this kind of people had been living before.
The first settlement of English people in America was a place that they called "Jamestown." Jamestown is in what is now the state of Virginia. The English people settled there beginning in 1607.- synonyms:
- colonization
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agreement, compact, compromise, contract, fine, understanding, village |
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