![]() ![]() ![]() The nature further changed the appearance and height of people. (Thambynayagam, Agnes 2009) The lighter skinned Europeans and their descendants tanned to become darker skinned people when they moved from cool climatic countries to bright and hot climatic countries in the equator zone. The consequence of such an evolution over a period of five hundred years was not only a much greater variation in the appearance and complexion of those now living in Sri Lanka, whom we refer to as the native population of the island nation, but it also resulted in the evolution of language, the transformation of religious practices and the development of social institutions. During this period, the population of the island evolved through the inter-mixing of people who had settled there from countries surrounding the Mediterranean Sea, as well as from European countries. The Gentiles, the Portuguese, the Dutch, the British and other Europeans colonized Sri Lanka for more than five hundred years prior to 1948. ![]()
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