How would you explain colonized and settlement to a 7th grader

Colonized and settlment?..okie lets see what i can do..

Explanation:

Colonized, would be that, that area was developed and people built homes or buildings/ a town to make it livable. OR that a group of settlers were sent there, on behalf of a government, to instill political control over it. Settlement, a place where prior to that, no one lived there, but it--presently--is being settled.