Thursday, January 26, 2017

Pocohontas and The Powhatan Dilemma

In the early sixteen hundreds, the Virginia federation of London launched three ships to the Americas in effort to establish the world-class successful English colony. The comer of Captain John smith and different settlers would mark the bloodline of a conflict between the Powhatan Confederacy and the English, untellable brutality, war, and deficit that would inevitably affect the sounds of both. sporty settlers wanted the Indians land and had the vividness to take it; the Indians could not live without their land (Townsend, 178). Powhatans quandary was that he would have a decision to make on behalf of his people; would he choose to destroy Jamestown and risk the comer of more unsandedcomers to avenge the settlers death; or, perhaps, he could make friends with the foreigners in hopes that through trade (corn for guns and other valuable goods), he could work power and in become overthrow surrounding tribes who potentially posed a threat. \n or so colonists traveled to t he New field in search for new beginnings, lush forests, foreign animals, rife and profitable farmland, gold and silver, objet dart others voyaged across the dangerous seas for the heraldic bearing and adventure of it. Once arriving in the New earth, it would be indispensable for the English settlers to be outfit with the basic knowledge of their unacquainted(predicate) lands. The Native Americans were neither raw nor destitute. Although the English settlers possessed undischarged technological advances that the Indians did not, Powhatan knew that they would rely all on his people to organize them on the cultivation of land. How had the settlers think to colonize the New World? Who entirely the Indians would tell the settlers what they postulate to know-about navigable rivers, food crops, pee supplies, and the like? (Townsend, 35). \nPowhatan was well certain of what he was up against; never underestimating the power of the English settlers but never thinking of the mselves or their culture as i...

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