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No, sorry. You cannot lump all types of colonialism into one thing. Ancient greek or phoenician colonization were different to roman coloniae were different to the imperialistically twisted colonialism focused on extortion of the colonialized people and areas that started to be an idea in the (very) late middle ages, took off in the early modern era and reached its peak in the 18th and 19th century.
So Uhm... Which ones of those were the good kind of colonialism?
Why does one have to be "good" for these not to be the same? Those things are different, with different motivations, methods, outcomes, etc.
And all in all, forms of colonialism during antiquity hadn't nearly the negative impact on the colonialized areas and people as modern, imperialistic colonialism.
Or do you really think that phoenician (antiquity) or norse (early medieval) trading outposts that integrated into the surrounding cultures and sometimes organically (!) evolve into a new culture (for example, Carthage, Kievan Rus) or viking/norse settlements in what became a french vassal in Normandy is the same as european powers carving up Africa among each other, comitting genocide in the process and drawing new borders disregarding tribal territories?
Meanwhile, in Assyria:
Nomenclature is a funny thing.