did any western country colonize them?
Great Britain
Andaman Islands
In 1789, the Bengal Presidency established a naval base and penal colony on Chatham Island in the southeast bay of Great Andaman. The settlement is now known as Port Blair (after the Bombay Marine lieutenant Archibald Blair who founded it). After two years, the colony was moved to the northeast part of Great Andaman and was named Port Cornwallis after Admiral William Cornwallis. However, there was much disease and death in the penal colony and the government ceased operating it in May 1796.

In 1824, Port Cornwallis was the rendezvous of the fleet carrying the army to the First Burmese War. In the 1830s and 1840s, shipwrecked crews who landed on the Andamans were often attacked and killed by the natives and the islands had a reputation for cannibalism. The loss of the "Runnymede" and the "Briton" in 1844 during the same storm, while transporting goods and passengers between India and Australia, and the continuous attacks launched by the natives, which the survivors fought off, alarmed 
the sino-roman relations are associated with which two countries? The Roman Empire and Han Empire of China what product was exported to the former from the latter? Silk what was the name given to the route they traveled for that trade? Silk Road what places did the route connect? East Asia and Southeast Asia with South Asia, Persia, the Arabian Peninsula, East Africa and Southern Europe what were the major religions practiced in the second region? Islam, Buddhism and Christianity what ethnicities are found there? Aslians and Negritos where is the latter group originally from? Southeast Asia and the Andaman Islands who founded the second religion mentioned above? UNANSWERABLE what are the ethical tenets followed by that religion? Taking refuge in the Buddha, the Dharma and the Sangha, observance of moral precepts, Buddhist monasticism, Buddhist meditation and the cultivation of the Paramitas which western countries is this religion popular in? United States and Canada where are the islands mentioned above situated? In northeastern Indian Ocean about southwest off the coasts of Myanmar's Ayeyarwady Region who were the first/original inhabitants of this island? The indigenous Andamanese people
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Andaman Islands [SEP] British colonisation
In 1789, the Bengal Presidency established a naval base and penal colony on Chatham Island in the southeast bay of Great Andaman. The settlement is now known as Port Blair (after the Bombay Marine lieutenant Archibald Blair who founded it). After two years, the colony was moved to the northeast part of Great Andaman and was named Port Cornwallis after Admiral William Cornwallis. However, there was much disease and death in the penal colony and the government ceased operating it in May 1796. In 1824, Port Cornwallis was the rendezvous of the fleet carrying the army to the First Burmese War.