Why Did Jamestown Die In Jamestown?

One of the biggest reason why Jamestown really sufferd was when john smith had to go back to england and they had no good substainable water source nor did they have any idea of how to farm with this new land. John smith got injured in a gunpowder explosion and had to go back to england. Also most of their water supply was not good and would give them diseases like disentary. When they came over they had no idea of how to farm in the new soil.
The soil was alot different than the soil in england. Which threw them of because they couldnt get anything to grow. With them not knowing how to farm they would start to run out of food. On top of all the other problems they had not having food would of had to been one of the worst.
With the water they had it really was hard to survive. The water had organisms in the in it that would give the settlers bad life threatening diseases. If a settler had cought a disease they were not likely to survive with the lack of modern medicine. Water is a very vital thing for survival so not having good water was catastropic.
The reason everything was going good for them had left. John smith had a peace with the indians. Pocahontas would bring food for the colonists as long as john smith was there. Which led to the starving times.
But eventually the starving time ended which left the colonists with only sixty. Then John Rolf would come over and find a new way to cure tobacco. John Rolf ended up marring which Pocahontas would help the colonists form a long lasting peace with the indians. The colonist had come so vary close to failing they probobly would have failed if it werent for the