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First came the Aeolians, who settled the region to the north of Smyrna (now Izmir), then the Ionians, who settled the coast south of Smyrna as far as the River Maeander.
Indeed, if he may be said to have an overall interpretation, it is one that is fairly conventional: that America's English colonies (there is little here about Spanish or French colonies) were settled by extraordinarily adventurous and idealistic people and that the North American continent until well into the 19 th century was a fantastic land--an "economy of plenty" that rewarded bold and ambitious dreamers.
While the courts have settled the legal issue (for the moment), pundits continue to masticate these questions dutifully.
Isaac Asimov, in his futuristic Foundation Trilogy novels, imagined a thickly settled universe where the familiar "24-hour day" is an accepted convention, presumably based on the rotation of humanity's planet of origin--but where no one remembers any longer what the original planet was.
Then the Portuguese arrived and settled here.