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Article Evaluation
The opening paragraph in the Settler Colonialism article is very pointed. While settler colonialism is a destructive force in the world, the opening paragraph has both a broken citation, and provides non-neutraly presented information. Perhaps some edits to the language, to be more neutral would be good. Moreover, there seems to be a lot of information missing from the discussion of Settler Colonialism in the Ancient World, with what little that is presented on Rome, is not to complete of the whole idea of what colonialism was like in the Ancient world. This will be the section I will mostly work on for this course, as I am a classicist whose research interests are heavily invested in Ancient colonialism.

Greek Colonization
Following the collapse of the Greek Bronze Age, Greek City states, or poleis, began to grow. By the 8thcentury BCE, population growth was no longer sustainable in and around the Aegean, prompting the Ancient Greeks to look to the other shores of the Mediterranean and Black Sea to direct their people to. Miletus, an Ionian Greek city-state on the Western shore of Anatolia, was a rich polis that was considered to be greatest Greek metropolis. Pliny the Elder, in his book Natural History, credits Miletus with founding over 90 colonies, including Sinope in the Black Sea. Sinope itself founded several Greek colonies in the black sea region and flourished in its own right, but the site of Sinope was once a Hittite port called Sinuwa before being colonized by the Greeks. The Hittite empire, at its height, spanned across Anatolia. The Hittites were a distinct people from the Greeks and contact between the two cultures extended back to the Late Bronze Age during the time of the Mycenaean Greeks.

Sinope is an example of an ἀποικία - apoikia (pl.: ἀποικίαι, apoikiai), which is a colony that eventually develops into a self-determining city state yet keeps cultural ties with its mother city. Greek colonies were founded across the Mediterranean and facilitated the Hellenization of the basin. Cicero, the Roman orator, once made a remark about the extensive colonization movements of the Greeks and the spread of their culture by saying “It were as though a Greek fringe has been woven about the shores of the barbarians.”