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Compare/Contrast Jamestown and Plymouth

2023-10-09 12:31:37

- Plymouth: Massachusetts state, cold climate, good harbor, thin rocky soil, logging, shipbuilding, prosperity of fishing and trade

English is. They established a colony in Jamestown in 1607 and in Plymouth in 1620. Each of these colonies has an Indian myth. There is Pocahontas in Jamestown (Virginia State). Plymouth enjoys Thanksgiving dinner with Wampanoags. Indeed, Indian tribes in these two places are in conflict at once. The original British colony was in the surroundings, Indians lost population soon due to illness. Since Europeans lived in narrow areas close to livestock for centuries, they had immune defense against many diseases that American Indians simply did not have. Then the Indians died, and the people who stayed could not stop further invasion. There were many Indian struggles in the early days of the colonial era, but the most important was the war of King Phillip. King Philippe is the chief of Wampaunag who attacked the New England colony in 1675. By 1678, Wampanoag has almost completely wiped out

Basically, in both areas, Plymouth and Jamestown have locals as Indians. But the difference is the difference between the people who came to the area later. In Jamestown, it is a pilgrim in Plymouth, Europe. In Jamestown, conflict involves economic problems, but in Plymouth, conflict also includes economic and religious issues. In Jamestown, Europeans rely on Indians because they can not cultivate land, but in Plymouth pilgrims can not rely on Indians because they can cultivate the land. In Jamestown, the Indians are so generous that even if Europeans dislike them, there is not such a thing yet. In Plymouth, the pilgrims killed the Indians for various reasons and enjoyed the fact that they were occupying the entire region slowly with power. For some time, the disease of Plymouth attacked the Indians violently and since they were already low, they faced a number of problems at that time.