"Terra nullius" was a legal and political doctrine employed by colonial powers to legitimize the seizure of territories by asserting they were not under sovereign control of any existing indigenous group.
The concept of "terra nullius" was used by European colonizers to justify
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Answer: B. Land appropriation from indigenous people
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