The Chesapeake colonies had people who lived short and nasty lives because of all the diseases and dangers that could end their lives prematurely. This includes things like dysentery or typhoid. They could also get killed by animals or the locals. There was a lot of fighting between the people too because for each woman there were 6 men, so a lot of the men fought for women. Commonly people wouldn't go past their forties at best.
When Europeans experienced the events of the Scientific Revolution they looked upon it as a changing world, although not always open to the origins of those scientific changes. The Scientific Revolution became part of society without many people even noticing.
He proved that baseball wasn't just a white sport, that not just African Americans, but all "colored" races could play/do what they wanted as long as they put heart into it.
