Sunday, October 30, 2016
Pocohontas and The Powhatan Dilemma
In the early sixteen hundreds, the Virginia attach to of London launched three ships to the Americas in effort to establish the source successful English colony. The arriver of Captain John metalworker and otherwise settlers would mark the base of a conflict betwixt the Powhatan Confederacy and the English, untellable brutality, war, and dearth that would inevitably affect the live(a)s of both. duster settlers wanted the Indians land and had the distinctiveness 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 take to destroy Jamestown and risk the arrival of more sensitivecomers to avenge the settlers finale; or, perhaps, he could make friends with the foreigners in hopes that through trade (corn for guns and other valuable goods), he could agnize power and in wind overthrow surrounding tribes who potentially posed a threat.\n well-nigh colonists tr aveled to the New world in search for new beginnings, lush forests, foreign animals, superabundant and profitable farmland, gold and silver, plot of ground others voyaged across the dangerous seas for the enliven and adventure of it. Once arriving in the New foundation, it would be undeniable for the English settlers to be furnished with the basic knowledge of their foreign lands. The Native Americans were neither naif nor destitute. Although the English settlers possessed great technological advances that the Indians did not, Powhatan knew that they would rely all on his people to ready them on the cultivation of land. How had the settlers mean to colonize the New World? Who scarcely the Indians would tell the settlers what they needful to know-about navigable rivers, food crops, peeing supplies, and the like? (Townsend, 35).\nPowhatan was well cognizant of what he was up against; neer underestimating the power of the English settlers but never thinking of themselv es or their culture as i...
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