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    Many of the original Jamestown settlers died because they were unprepared for survival in the new environment. The settlers lacked necessary skills like hunting, building, and farming. They also had poor relations with the native Powhatan people, which prevented the Powhatans from helping the settlers. Additionally, unexpected environmental conditions like droughts and changes in water sources compromised the settlers' access to food and water. Due to these unpreparedness for survival and environmental challenges, as well as strained relations with native groups, over 60% of the original Jamestown settlers perished.

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    Many of the original Jamestown settlers died because they were unprepared for survival in the new environment. The settlers lacked necessary skills like hunting, building, and farming. They also had poor relations with the native Powhatan people, which prevented the Powhatans from helping the settlers. Additionally, unexpected environmental conditions like droughts and changes in water sources compromised the settlers' access to food and water. Due to these unpreparedness for survival and environmental challenges, as well as strained relations with native groups, over 60% of the original Jamestown settlers perished.

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    Many of the original Jamestown settlers died because they were unprepared for survival in the new environment. The settlers lacked necessary skills like hunting, building, and farming. They also had poor relations with the native Powhatan people, which prevented the Powhatans from helping the settlers. Additionally, unexpected environmental conditions like droughts and changes in water sources compromised the settlers' access to food and water. Due to these unpreparedness for survival and environmental challenges, as well as strained relations with native groups, over 60% of the original Jamestown settlers perished.

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    Many of the original Jamestown settlers died because they were unprepared for survival in the new environment. The settlers lacked necessary skills like hunting, building, and farming. They also had poor relations with the native Powhatan people, which prevented the Powhatans from helping the settlers. Additionally, unexpected environmental conditions like droughts and changes in water sources compromised the settlers' access to food and water. Due to these unpreparedness for survival and environmental challenges, as well as strained relations with native groups, over 60% of the original Jamestown settlers perished.

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    Sophia O’Rourke

    US 1
    Period 1
    Due:10/5/18

    Why did so many Colonists die?

    Only 60 of the original 214 settlers at jamestown survived,but why? Surprisingly

    the new settlers main focus was not on survival but they were determined to make a

    successful colony settlement and to spread their knowledge and make it in the “New

    World”. Not only were these people unprepared for the new land but they were entering

    but were unaware that over 15,000 powhatan indians were already living along the

    jamestown river. In all the settlers died because they lacked the survival skills needed,

    they had poor relations with the native americans and also because of unforeseen

    environmental issues.

    The first reason why the jamestown settlers died was most of these settlers were

    wealthy english gentlemen and had no prior work or labour experience. Not many of the

    people brought to the new settlement had the knowledge to build a successful colony.

    Not only did these people not know how to do manual labour but these people were in a

    whole new land, so for that reason it made it much harder to build. Also, many of the

    settlers that came had unknown occupations, so these men were probably not helping

    to the cause, building wise. The settlers didn’t even bring women to reproduce with, this

    means that the settlers had to use native american women.

    Another reason why many of the settlers did not survive was poor relations with

    native americans. The 15,000 powhatan indians that were already been living there,
    and knew how to navigate , hunt in the area and overall survive, poor relations with

    these people did not advance these settlements.Because the englishmen did not come

    with any women to the new settlement that often had to use native american women or

    even force them to be their partner. The settlers treated the native americans as if they

    were superior to them when actually, this may have set them back because after that

    the native americans didn't want to provide assistance in helping the colonists survive.

    People have said that if the relationship was better, the native americans could have

    potentially helped the colonists arrive.

    Lastly, the environment played a very large role in killing so many settlers.

    According to Document B from 1606-1612 Jamestown,Virginia had its longest drought,

    at one point these people barely had enough water to drink and obviously did not know

    how to filter all the other water. Because of the location of the river, the ocean water and

    fresh water began to mixed making brackish water. Also most of their food source came

    from the river so in the winters and the fall when there weren't many fish in the lake

    there was an increase in people starving to death. The new area brought a whole new

    environment, which these new settlers did not know how to predict because they had no

    knowledge on the area from before.

    All in all the settlements in Jamestown, virginia were not successful because of

    their lack of skills on how to build a successful colony, a poor relationship with the native

    americans, for example them not helping the settlers survive and not sharing their ways

    because of the way the new settlers treated the native americans and because of

    unexpected environmental conditions such as the new changing seasons that they
    weren't prepared on how to handle or know how to deal with. Many people speculate

    that if one of these reasons would have been different that the colonies might have

    actually been successful or at least not resulting in so many deaths.

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