Steinberg used the word "_________________" to refer to the process of taking land and resources from the indigenous people of America and the resulting displacement of those peoples. As he noted, the ____________ process during the sixteenth through eighteenth century brought extensive "prosperity" to those who came to America and to world in general: "That prosperity was based, of course, on the _________________ of the indigenous peoples who preceded the colonists on the land, a slow, violent process that in eastern North America had yet to be completed as late as the American Revolution."

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