Question

Based on the excerpt, how did Europeans justify settling on land that belonged to indigenous peoples?

Answer 1

A. Settling on lands owned by indigenous peoples would allow merchants and traders to more easily interact with those indigenous peoples and convert them to European religions.

Answer 2

The correct answer is A) Settling on lands owned by indigenous peoples would allow merchants and traders to more easily interact with those indigenous peoples and convert them to European religions.

Based on the excerpt, Europeans justified settling on land that belonged to indigenous peoples in that "Settling on lands owned by indigenous peoples would allow merchants and traders to more easily interact with those indigenous peoples and convert them to European religions."

We are referring to a portion of the text called "A true declaration of the estate of the colony in Virginia with a confutation of such scandalous reports as haue tended to the disgrace of a so worthy an enterprise," by the Council of Virginia in 1610.

The Virginia-London Company had sponsored the trip to those Engils colonists that wanted to travel to the American territory to make those lands profitable and wanted to be rich. They arrived in 1607 and founded the colony of Jamestown, Virginia.