colonized

Area is colonized by poor people who by necessity develop a subculture that is adept at surviving in that area with little means.

The bacteria doesn't even need to be alive to make you sick if it's already colonized your food.

Korea and Taiwan were both colonized and much more exposed to WW2, and they're very well off.

Here's another scenario: they could have colonized other worlds, but had no interest in setting foot on every last planet.

All the Americas were colonized, and most (but not all) are doing better than India.

The poorest countries in the world were mostly colonized, but that's because most of the world has been victims of colonialism.

Within 60 years, the French colonized Vietnam and split it into Cochinchine, Tonkin, and Annam.

Various European powers raised a flag on New Guinea, but they never successfully colonized it.

Nitpick, but most have them happen to have been Persians, colonized by the Arabs.

They have colonized the galaxy itself, extracting energy from hundreds of billions of stars.

And if they’re far away that means they should already have colonized half the galaxy before they decide to launch an expedition to a planet thousands of light years away.

Rather, it comes from the mainstream business culture (MBA culture) that colonized us.

There is a disconnect between these two statements: " No alien civilizations have substantially colonized our solar system or systems nearby.

Various areas of the lagoons were colonized, including the present site of Torcello, before the seat of administration was fixed at a group of islands known as Rivus Altus (“the highest bank”), later the Rialto, the present location of the city of Venice.