When one society finds itself forced to relinquish power entirely to another society that in itself is a form of underdevelopment .... During the centuries of pre-colonial trade, some control over social political and economic life was retained in Africa, in spite of the disadvantageous commerce with Europeans.

When Europeans first arrived on Guam Chamorro society roughly fell into three classes: matao ( upper class ), achaot ( middle class ), and mana ' chang ( lower class ).

When Europeans arrived as colonists in North America, Native Americans changed their practice of slavery dramatically.

When Europeans first arrived, inhabitants of New Guinea and nearby islands – while still relying on bone, wood, and stone tools – had a productive agricultural system.

When the platypus was first encountered by Europeans in 1798, a pelt and sketch were sent back to Great Britain by Captain John Hunter, the second Governor of New South Wales.

When Asians are leaving work, Europeans are arriving to work.

When Europeans first arrived at Sierra Leone, slavery among the African peoples of the area was rare.

When the Europeans began their African slave trade in the early 15th century, the diet of newly-enslaved Africans changed on the long journeys away from their homelands.

When an outbreak of yellow fever would occur in an African village with colonists, it would wipe out nearly all the Europeans, while leaving the native population with usually nonlethal symptoms resembling influenza.

When the first Europeans arrived, the most powerful states in precolonial Zambia were the kingdom of Barotseland in the upper Zambezi, and the kingdom of Mwata Kazembe on the Luapula.

When Europeans first landed on the islands, they reported the Bahamas were lushly forested.

When Europeans saw them, however, they became a major source of inspiration for Impressionist, Cubist, and Post-Impressionist artists, such as Vincent van Gogh, James Abbott McNeill Whistler, Claude Monet, Edgar Degas, Mary Cassatt, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec and others.

When Europeans settled Australia they intentionally released many species into the wild including the Red Fox, Brown Hare, and the European Rabbit.

When the Europeans came to North America, the Arapaho saw the Europeans ' horses and realized that they could travel quicker and further with horses instead of dogs.

When counties were established by Europeans in New York in 1683, the present Seneca County was part of Albany County.

When Europeans made contact with America, European diseases ( to which they had no immunity ) ravaged the indigenous American population, rather than the other way around ( the " trade " in diseases was a little more balanced in Africa and southern Asia: endemic malaria and yellow fever made these regions notorious as the " white man's grave "; and syphilis may have spread in the opposite direction ).

When the Europeans first explored this area they found it populated mostly by a couple of Indian tribes, the Tubatulabals and by a few Paiute-Shoshone.

When Europeans first reached Tomales Bay, it was home to Coast Miwok people.

When Europeans came to Japan, they were called nanban (), literally Barbarians from the South, because the Portuguese ships appeared to sail from the South.

When Europeans first entered the area, " Teaneck " referred to the north-south ridge that runs along present-day Queen Anne Road, with Lenni Lenape Native Americans having established camps on either side of the ridge.

When Europeans arrived, the place was called " Meroke " all along the South Shore of what is now Nassau County.

When Europeans arrived, they began cutting down the forests, chasing away much of the wildlife.

When the Europeans arrived in the Straits of Mackinac area the predominant tribes were: three Algonquian tribes, known as the Council of Three Fires: Chippewa ( Ojibwe ), Ottawa ( Odawa ), and Potawatomi.

When they had licked the last of the wieners' taste from their fingers, they settled back, and Cappy offered Ernie a cigarette.

When the dust settled, he went back to the Jeep and carefully worked Roberts' body onto his shoulder.

When a personal injury claim is settled either in court or out of court, the most common way the compensation payment is made is by a lump sum award in full and final settlement of the claim.

When the city of Basel was definitely and officially " reformed " in 1529, Erasmus gave up his residence there and settled in the imperial town of Freiburg im Breisgau.

When the VNQDD fled to China after the failed uprising against the French, they settled in Yunnan and Canton, in two different branches.

When the ruling dynasty changed, the royal establishment abandoned its capital of Manan and settled in the new capital Njimi further south of Kanem ( the word for " south " in the Teda language ).

When the rebellious helots were finally forced to surrender and permitted to evacuate the country, the Athenians settled them at the strategic city of Naupactus on the Corinthian Gulf.

Indeed, such was the perceived threat of the Ottoman Empire under the reign of Suleiman that ambassador Busbecq warned of Europe's imminent conquest: " On Turks ' side are the resources of a mighty empire, strength unimpaired, habituation to victory, endurance of toil, unity, discipline, frugality and watchfulness ... Can we doubt what the result will be ?... When the Turks have settled with Persia, they will fly at our throats supported by the might of the whole East ; how unprepared we are I dare not say.

When the dust settled, Septimius Severus emerged as emperor, establishing the Severan dynasty.

When he settled in London he began work on his Florilegium.

When the wedding arrangements were settled, Vladimir dispatched 6, 000 troops to the Byzantine Empire and they helped to put down the revolt.

When the Dutch lost Sint Maarten ( and Anguilla where they had built a fort shortly after arriving in Sint Maarten ) to the Spanish, they settled Curaçao and Sint Eustatius.

When things settled down, the Privy Council of Denmark had lost some of its influence, and that of Norway no longer existed.

When Julius Caesar arrived in the region in the 1st century BC, the region was settled by the Nervii.

When the newly settled Turkish population arrived they generally lived in the north of the old riverbed.

When the legislature decided to relocate there, they proposed the name " Missouriopolis " but later settled on Jefferson City.

When the Semitic tribes settled in the cities of Mesopotamia, their tribal customs passed over into city law.

When he was three years old, his family moved to the United States and settled in the Williamsburg neighborhood in Brooklyn for about 10 years before returning to Italy.

When the war began to go against the Imperial arms, however, he had to flee from France with the Imperial Family and settled in England at Chislehurst, Kent.

When reelin is absent, like in the mutant reeler mouse, the order of cortical layering becomes roughly inverted, with younger neurons finding themselves to be unable to pass the settled layers.

When Turner's father died in 1932, he moved to Canada with his Canadian-born mother, and settled in her childhood home in Rossland, British Columbia.

When the case was settled, Hussein Ibish, director of communications for the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee ( ADC ), stated that the ADL had gathered data " systematically in a program whose clear intent was to undermine civil rights and Arab-American organizations ".

When Thomas died some time before March 1461, Eleanor's father-in-law took back one of the two manors he had settled on her and her husband when they married.

When Goofy left Spoonerville for a short amount of time, Peg married Pete and settled down.