Postcolonial studies usually use the phrases colonial extractive or colonial settler. The French mostly did extractive: extract fur out of North America with sparsely populated French trading posts / forts. The Spanish did settler: settle vast amounts of land with European colonists defended by well garrisoned forts. More @Wikipedia
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