1answer.
Ask question
Login Signup
Ask question
All categories
  • English
  • Mathematics
  • Social Studies
  • Business
  • History
  • Health
  • Geography
  • Biology
  • Physics
  • Chemistry
  • Computers and Technology
  • Arts
  • World Languages
  • Spanish
  • French
  • German
  • Advanced Placement (AP)
  • SAT
  • Medicine
  • Law
  • Engineering
AleksAgata [21]
3 years ago
5

.What was the primary reason “Starving Time” occurred in Jamestown during the winter of 1609-1610

History
1 answer:
mina [271]3 years ago
8 0

Answer:

Explanation:

“The starving time” was the winter of 1609-1610, when food shortages, fractured leadership, and a siege by Powhatan Indian warriors killed two of every three colonists at James Fort. From its beginning, the colony struggled to maintaining a food supply. Trade relations with the Virginia Indian tribes were strained because a severe seven-year drought stressed food supplies for everyone in the region. Captain John Smith had some success trading European goods for corn in the first two years of the settlement, but his strongarm tactics also angered the tribal communities.

Aware of the food shortages, the Virginia Company sent a fleet of nine ships in July 1609 with new colonists and enough supplies to last through the winter. But the fleet was scattered and damaged by a hurricane. The largest ship, the Sea Venture, was shipwrecked on the Island of Bermuda with much of the supplies and leaders such as Captain Christopher Newport, Sir George Somers, and Sir Thomas Gates. In mid-August some of the ships arrived at Jamestown with 300 colonists and few supplies.

Smith was badly injured by a mysterious gunpowder explosion and forced to return to England in October. George Percy became President of the Council and faced the lethal combination of dwindling food supplies and an order by Chief Powhatan that his warriors should attack any colonists or livestock found outside the fort. Percy later wrote that “Indians killed as fast without [the fort] as Famine and Pestilence did within.” Percy calculated that meager rations of half a can of meal a day would get them only halfway through the winter. He wrote that to satisfy their “Crewell hunger,” some went into the woods looking for “Serpents and snakes, and to digge the earthe for wylde and unknowne Rootes,” but those people “weare Cutt off and slayne by the Salvages.”

Starvation weakened the colonists and led to sicknesses such as dysentery and typhoid. The colonists ate shoe leather and butchered seven horses brought from England the summer before on the ill-fated fleet. Percy wrote, “Then, having fed upon horses and other beasts as long as they lasted, we were glad to make shift with vermin, as dogs, cats and mice.” There were charges of cannibalism: Starving settlers dug up “dead corpses outt of graves” to eat them, and others “Licked upp the Bloode which ha[d] fallen from their weake fellowes.”Jamestown Rediscovery archaeologists in 2012 uncovered the first forensic evidence of survival cannibalism in a European colony in North America.

The Sea Venture survivors arrived from Bermuda in May 1610 to find only 60 colonists still alive in the fort. Thomas Gates realized there would be further starvation within a few weeks; on June 7, 1610, he announced the colonists would abandon Jamestown and sail for England. But their path home was blocked by the arriving ship of the new governor of the colony, Lord De la Warr, who insisted they return and rebuild Jamestown

You might be interested in
What economic change during the Renaissance made bankers more important?
igor_vitrenko [27]

Answer:

People began to buy goods with money instead of bartering

Explanation:

4 0
2 years ago
4. Why do you think the US almost never has a balanced budget?
Eduardwww [97]

Answer:

because we are helping other countrys keep peace with us and not kill us

Explanation:

6 0
2 years ago
Read 2 more answers
Ok i need it ASAP
stealth61 [152]

Answer:

D

Explanation:

4 0
2 years ago
How is the humanism of the Renaissance reflected in its art? Explain with examples.
nekit [7.7K]
The idea of humanism is mostly adeptly reflected in Renaissance art by a focus on the body itself, especially with sculpture, where many detailed portraits of the human body (such as the David) were created. 
5 0
2 years ago
What is this answer ? Please help meee (16 points !)
klemol [59]

Answer:

Patriots

Explanation:

Patriots were people who wanted the American colonies to gain their independence from Britain. They wanted their own country called the United States.

8 0
2 years ago
Other questions:
  • Which of the following groups supported the abolition of slavery?
    13·1 answer
  • Judaism, like Christianity and Islam, traces its roots to _____.
    10·2 answers
  • Mustapha mond quotes henry ford saying, "history is bunk." henry ford really did say that. what do you think he meant?
    12·2 answers
  • Which of the following factors has been used to redraw borders arounder the globe?
    11·2 answers
  • The equator runs ___ and ____
    15·1 answer
  • This power enables the president to reject a bill passed by the legislature:
    6·2 answers
  • Sort the tiles according to the group each describes.
    12·1 answer
  • Who wrote plays that poked fun at politicians and encouraged the audience to think
    9·2 answers
  • Globalism in the twentieth century was promoted by advances in
    13·1 answer
  • PLEASE ONLY HAVE !) MINNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN
    6·1 answer
Add answer
Login
Not registered? Fast signup
Signup
Login Signup
Ask question!