1.   ...in the old days before the European settlers arrived in the country.

2.   The endless forest that the first European settlers encountered.

3.   American Indians taught European settlers the trick of extracting sugar from maple trees, and methods have not changed much in three centuries.

4.   And no one can be sure what happened to those European settlers in the city of Midas and Alexander.

5.   And in the years that followed, the European settlers seized Indian lands and tribes fell to disease.

6.   As more European settlers arrived, vineyards began to crop up throughout the county.

7.   Before that ... well, that was before the European settlers came.

8.   Before European settlers arrived, some scientists believe, the central role at the bottom of the food chain was filled primarily by phytoplankton, microscopic plants.

9.   Before European settlers came to what is now Georgia, Native Americans lived across the land.

10.   According to federal law, designation is supposed to go to tribes that can prove continuous existence as distinct social and political communities since first contact with European settlers.