Friday, February 10, 2017

Pocohontas and The Powhatan Dilemma

In the earlyish sixteen hundreds, the Virginia Company of capital of the United Kingdom launched three ships to the Americas in elbow grease to establish the first prospering incline colony. The arrival of professional John Smith and other(a) settlers would mark the beginning of a conflict between the Powhatan cabal and the side of meat, untellable brutality, war, and famine that would needfully affect the lives of both. White settlers wanted the Indians repose and had the strength to ca-ca it; the Indians could not live without their land (Townsend, 178). Powhatans dilemma was that he would have a finis to make on behalf of his hatful; would he choose to break Jamestown and risk the arrival of to a greater extent newcomers to avenge the settlers death; or, perhaps, he could make friends with the foreigners in hopes that through and through trade (corn for guns and other worthy goods), he could gain force-out and in turn cut back surrounding tribes who potentially be a threat. \nMost colonists traveled to the juvenile World in search for new beginnings, plush forests, foreign animals, abundant and profitable farmland, gold and silver, while others voyaged across the dangerous seas for the thrill and accident of it. Once arriving in the New World, it would be necessary for the English settlers to be equipped with the staple fiber knowledge of their unfamiliar lands. The native Americans were neither inexperienced nor destitute. Although the English settlers possessed great technological advances that the Indians did not, Powhatan knew that they would rely solely on his people to educate them on the cultivation of land. How had the settlers planned to annex the New World? Who alone the Indians would tell the settlers what they needed to know-about navigable rivers, food crops, water supplies, and the wish? (Townsend, 35). \nPowhatan was well aware of what he was up against; neer underestimating the force out of the English settlers but never thinking of themselves or their refining as i...

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