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Anonymous Posted 12 years ago
Vocabulary

Driven on to the margins

What does the topic subject exactly mean in this context:
Native populations were exterminated or driven on to the margins

My guess:
Native populations were alsmost all destroyed.
  

Top answer

I understand "driven on to the margins" to mean driven to the edges of the land that they once occupied.

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  • I understand "driven on to the margins" to mean driven to the edges of the land that they once occupied.
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I understand "driven on to the margins" to mean driven to the edges of the land that they once occupied.
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they were forced to leave the center and settle in border lands; in order to decrease their influence
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Anonymousthey were forced to leave the center and settle in border lands; in order to decrease their influence
That's an interpretation, not a paraphrase.
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AnonymousNative populations were exterminated
All of the native people were killed.
Anonymousdriven on to the margins
They were forced from the range of territory they once occupied. They had to live on small, marginal areas. ("Margins" implies the least productive or poorest land.)
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