A disease-ridden, bug-infested swamp with bad water: what a place to found a colony! But there were advantages as well to what was chosen as the site of the first permanent English settlement in North America.
To learn more about each reason contributing to the selection of Jamestown in 1607, click on the title next to each of the six images below.
<span>Julius Caesar
<span><span>sole ruler</span><span> 44BC : <span>murdered by senators
Augustus Caesar
sole ruler 31BC : Natural Death
Tiberius
Sole ruler 14AD : Natural Death
Caligula
Sole Ruler 37AD : murdered by soldiers
Claudias
Sole Ruler 41AD : Poisoned
Nero
Sole Ruler 54AD : Suicide
Galba
Sole Ruler 68AD : killed by soldiers
First 7 Emperors and most of them never lived their full lives.... Now think to yourself why would most of the first emperors not die naturally, because everyone hated them...
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Lincoln successfully guided the country through it's most difficult period, The Civil War