Lost Colony Of Roanoke Essay

The reason why the Lost Colony of Roanoke is significant to World History is because it was the first attempt for the English colonists to settle. They were looking for the first permanent place to colonize. The land that the Europeans settled in is now known as Virginia. It’s noteworthy because Jamestown had the same story as Roanoke. They were both attempts for the English to settle but both mysteriously disappeared, and both weren’t successful. Before Jamestown and Plymouth rock there was Roanoke.

John White sets out on sail to look for this place to colonize. However, he did not know that there were already a group of Native Americans living there, the carers of the land. The peculiar part was that the communication between the Natives and the colonists went really well. The Natives were welcoming to the colonists. The colonists would go to the Natives for food, who supplied them for a while. But the colonists had to learn how to get their own food. The colonists had gotten bitter and attacked the Natives.
He sets sail and makes a pact to the settlers that he would return in the spring. Nevertheless, Queen Elizabeth had other plans and White wasn’t able to return till 3 years later, to discover the colony had disappeared. He found the land vacant and everything that once was there such as houses were all gone. For 20 years after the disappearance of Roanoke, England makes no attempt whatsoever to search for the Lost colony. A lot of assumptions have been made, about what really happened to this colony, but without the first attempt of settling in a new colony at Roanoke perhaps the colonists would not have had found Jamestown or Plymouth rock in the foreseeable future. Overall England’s attempt of colonization was quite significant because without, we might have Virginia