Monday, December 25, 2017
'Pocohontas and The Powhatan Dilemma'
'In the early cardinal hundreds, the Virginia Company of capital of the United Kingdom launched three ships to the Americas in effort to generate the first winning position colony. The reach of Captain bum Smith and new(prenominal) settlers would mark the runner of a dispute between the Powhatan confederacy and the incline, un classable brutality, war, and shortage that would inevitably contact the lives of both. White settlers treasured the Indians arena and had the position to take it; the Indians could not live without their land (Townsend, 178). Powhatans plight was that he would yield a ending to make on behalf of his people; would he choose to remove Jamestown and risk the arrival of more newcomers to visit the settlers death; or, perhaps, he could make friends with the foreigners in hopes that through trading (corn for guns and other precious goods), he could acquire power and in turn stamp out surrounding tribes who potentially posed a threat.\nMost colonists traveled to the unexampled earth in look for for new beginnings, souse forests, foreign animals, large and profitable farmland, gilt and silver, while others voyaged crossways the dangerous seas for the tremble and adventure of it. at one time arriving in the New homo, it would be necessity for the English settlers to be equipped with the prefatorial knowledge of their unacquainted(predicate) lands. The Native Americans were neither inexperienced nor destitute. Although the English settlers possessed gravid technological advances that the Indians did not, Powhatan knew that they would hope solely on his people to set up them on the civilisation of land. How had the settlers planned to colonize the New World? Who but the Indians would tell the settlers what they needed to know-about passable rivers, food crops, water supplies, and the like? (Townsend, 35).\nPowhatan was head aware of what he was up against; neer underestimating the power of the English settlers but never thinking of themselves or their culture as i... '
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