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The Native Americans in and around Jamestown didn’t help them or associate with the men. The fort was built in an Native American empire of 15,000 and there were 104 men in Jamestown. They built the fort on the worse land in the area with mosquitoes and bad water. The local tribes knew this and all they had to do is wait for them to die. Within six months there were only 34 left alive.
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Which animal did the Native Americans of the Great Plains rely on for food and a variety of other uses?
They depend on buffalo and horses. They use horses for transportation and they use buffalo for food, cloth shelter and tools.
Why was the near extinction of the buffalo bad for many Native Americans?
The destruction of the buffalo was so detrimental to the Native American way of life due to the number of purposes buffalo served. Native Americans used buffalo for everything from food to shelter.
Why did Britain want there colonies to be more self sufficient?
The colonies wanted to be independent because the indigenous people felt that they were entitled to their own land. There was constant unrest because of repatriation of valuable resources that were serving the colonialists instead of the locals.
Why did Spanish colonists begin to rely more heavily on the Atlantic slave trade by the mid-1500s?
For apex the correct answer is "Legal restrictions and outbreak of disease made it difficult to get sufficient labor from indigenous populations"
What made life in the Chesapeake so precarious?
Life in the 1600s was hard in Chesapeake. Colonists faced brutal summer heat and humidity, spells of hunger, heavy labor, outbreaks of conflict, and illness. Along with the usual maladies, diseases for which they had no immunity ravaged newcomers. Limited medical knowledge and lack of larger family support made their lives even more precarious. A high death rate of young people and the chronic shortage of women forced the settlers to rely on recent immigrants to renew their population. Not until the 1700s could American-born colonists increase their numbers
