Sunday, November 13, 2016
Pocohontas and The Powhatan Dilemma
In the early sixteen hundreds, the Virginia lodge of London launched three ships to the Americas in effort to establish the setoff successful English colony. The comer of Captain John smith and early(a) settlers would mark the fount of a conflict amidst the Powhatan Confederacy and the English, untellable brutality, war, and paucity that would inevitably affect the full of lifes of both. ovalbumin settlers wanted the Indians land and had the forcefulness to take it; the Indians could not live without their land (Townsend, 178). Powhatans predicament was that he would have a decision to make on behalf of his people; would he consume to destroy Jamestown and risk the reach of more newlycomers to avenge the settlers devastation; or, perhaps, he could make friends with the foreigners in hopes that through trade (corn for guns and other valuable goods), he could further power and in persuade overthrow surrounding tribes who potentially posed a threat.\n close colonists tr aveled to the New human race in search for new beginnings, lush forests, foreign animals, riotous and profitable farmland, gold and silver, part others voyaged across the dangerous seas for the flap and adventure of it. Once arriving in the New knowledge domain, it would be infallible for the English settlers to be supply with the basic knowledge of their foreign lands. The Native Americans were neither new nor destitute. Although the English settlers possessed striking technological advances that the Indians did not, Powhatan knew that they would rely only if on his people to devise them on the cultivation of land. How had the settlers aforethought(ip) to colonize the New World? Who besides the Indians would tell the settlers what they mandatory to know-about navigable rivers, food crops, pissing supplies, and the like? (Townsend, 35).\nPowhatan was well aware of what he was up against; never underestimating the power of the English settlers but never thinking of th emselves or their culture as i...
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