early colonial life
Younger siblings who would not gain riches from families passing down inheritance, would go to New World to find fortune
Primogeniture
Leader for the Roanoke colony (Lost Colony)
Sir Walter Raleigh
Wampanoag Indian who helped Plymouth
Squanto
why is trade important
trade for resources, tools, food and animals
mesoptamia is present day...
iraq
Indentured Servitude
Poor people would have their travel to New World paid for in exchange for labor (5-7 years)
Adventurer brought to Jamestown to help with the settlement and relations with natives
Captain John Smith
daughter of Powhatan. married John Wolfe.
Pocahontas
first civilization
2 rivers
-Tigris and Euphrates Rivers
the starving years of jamestown
Tobacco became the cash crop of Jamestown after Rolfe discovered it grew well in the Virginia climate. Tobacco saved the colony
Discovers tobacco
married pocahontas
John Rolfe
helped james town survive starving years
powhatan
Babylonian system of law
harambes code (eye for an eye)
what is the fertile cresent
area between the rivers good for farming
conflict between anglicans and purritans
Both form of Protestant religion but worshipped God differently. Puritans left England due to persecution
Receives proprietary colony of Pennsylvania
William Penn
father to pocahontas
powhatan
-phoenicians
only sailors
pros of living by the river
good soil, trade
the "first thanksgiving"
Wampanoags help Pilgrims in Plymouth survive by teaching them how to plant crops. Feast was to celebrate friendship
received colony of Maryland for Catholics
Lord Baltimore
JACK- Polytheism vs monotheism
polytheism= belief/ worship multiple gods
monotheism= belief/ worship in one god
temple for the gods
ziggurats
cons of living by the river
flooding,