The Space Review  Pilgrims at Plymouth illustration The
experience of the Pilgrims, among other colonizers, may prove
essential to future efforts to establish settlements on the Moon
and Mars.  The greatest game of all time  Those who cannot
remember the past are condemned to repeat the eleventh grade.
—James W. Loewen, Lies My Teacher Told Me (1995)  Rome colonized
Sicily, then Britain. England colonized Ireland, then America.
While we might look at those activities now as ethnic cleansing,
there is a fundamental point: to be successful in far
colonization, experience is helpful. The brutal history of Roman
colonization can be relived in the non-PC PC computer game Rome:
Total War (Rome) while we celebrate English colonization of the
New World this week.  Us vs. them  In Rome, you are faced with a
choice whenever you invade a city: take over the city leaving
the inhabitants alive or kill them all and colonize it afresh.
Leave the inhabitants alive and the colony may fail. All too
often in the ancient world,