By the first anniversary of the first landing fifteen more ships had arrived bringing the colonist population to 3,000.

When the Persians took over Egypt, Naucratis remained an important Greek port and the colonist population were used as mercenaries by both the rebel Egyptian princes and the Persian kings, who later gave them land grants, spreading the Greek culture into the valley of the Nile.

Much of the colonist population is killed, but the Empire sends no help.

The rapid growth of the colonist population, coupled with insatiable demands for land by the New Zealand Company and the dubious practices it employed in purchasing it, created friction with local Maori, leading to war in the 1860s.

This successfully frustrated the efforts of the British to enlist sufficient Native American support throughout the South to overpower the comparatively small colonist population.

The violence used by royalist forces and prospect of being ruled by Fernando shifted the majority of the colonist population in favor of separation from Spain.

The mountain colonies, such as Pacheco, García, and Chuichupa, slowly lost colonist population due mainly to economic pressures, so that by the 1960s most Mormon colonists lived either in Colonia Juárez or Colonia Dublán, where to this day a sizable part of the population descend from the original colonists.

The Glassblowers of 1608 were successful in that they were able to send a sample of their glassware home to England, however, operations did not likely survive the "Starving Time", when the colonist population dropped from around 500 to 60.