Causes Of Humanity In Jamestown

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Jamestown: The Cause by Humanity

The first colony of the English, Jamestown, had begun when almost one hundred and five English settlers sailed had sailed to North America and arrived in 1607 to Virginia. The English settlers did not know the major challenges that they would run into when they arrived to Jamestown. Humanity was the biggest cause of their problems when they would start a new life in North America from conflicts between Native Americans with settlers, the English colonists not coming prepared with the right tools to survive in the new colony of Jamestown and the colonists’ starvation caused by both not coming prepared to survive with the conflicts between the settlers and natives.

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