Why Did So Many Jamestown Colonists Die? In May 1607‚ about 110 Englishmen arrived off the coast of Virginia. It was going to be the first permanent English colony in the new world. The first years of settlement were not easy and many of the colonists kept on dying. Many of the colonists died that they almost failed as a colony. There are many reasons why they died; the main reason was from diseases‚ the lack of food and fresh water‚ and their bad relationship with the Powhatan Indians.
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Why did so many colonists died at Jamestown? In a matter of four years‚ almost every colonist died in Jamestown. In 1607‚ English ships sailed Into Chesapeake bay and up the James river and later founded Jamestown in Virginia. By the Summer of 1609‚ 524 colonists would have arrived in Jamestown. But by 1611‚ more than 80% Would be dead! There are three main reasons why this could have happened. There wasn’t Enough food‚ the water was unusable‚ and they didn’t have enough workers with the
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Why did slavery in America last so long? Slavery was legal in America from 1619 to 1865‚ that’s almost 250 years. The slaves were always treated with no respect and they had no rights. To this day‚ slavery is America’s dark background and it is an embarrassment‚ but why did it go on for so long? People didn’t revolt‚ because of the conditioning and the fear of resistance. Life as a slave was terrible‚ cruel‚ and depressing. Being a slave was a curse‚ they had to do whatever their master wanted them
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Much of the borrowing is in the form of municipal bonds. As the size of the debt grew‚ so did the complexity‚ with some branches of government issuing bonds on behalf of others‚ or backstopping each other’s debts‚ until it became nearly impossible to keep track of it all. Even then‚ demand for Puerto Rico’s bonds was strong because they pay
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HOW AND WHY DID ISLAM SPREAD SO QUICKLY? In 610 C.E.‚ a local merchant named Muhammad completely changed all of Middle East through the religion of Islam. He fled to Mecca‚ in a cave where he was given the words of Allah and by this‚ introducing the religion. Overtime‚ the religion continued to attract new followers‚ which leads to question- how and why did Islam spread so quickly? Three of the reasons to how this happened were due to trade‚ the message passed on from God and the conquest of land
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Why did Hong Kong Fall so Easily? Hong Kong is world widely known for being the world’s financial hub and for being the world’s richest city; most people don’t know that before being a financial city‚ it had a rich history behind it. It went through one of the greatest‚ harshest wars in history‚ the Second World War. There are many reasons why the Japanese were so successful in capturing Hong Kong; they invested most of their money into the Japanese Army. While they had latest guns and weapons
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Why So Expensive? College is said to be some of the best years of your life. The parties‚ the freedom‚ and the new experience help you find new friends‚ hopefully a career and yourself‚ but rising college cost are having young adults stressing instead of enjoying the college experience. Every year less and less states are giving their college’s money and more and more students are asking for financial aid or taking out student loans. The more that college tuition continues to rise the more of
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How did Sony internationalize its R&D activities? What were the initial motivations for Sony to establish technology centres abroad? How would Kuemmerle categorize the R&D centres at Sony?” Sony followed at the 1950’s a certain strategy which was incremental en cautious. As one of the founders‚ Morita‚ explained “you must first learn about the market‚ learn how to sell it‚ and build up your corporate confidence before you commit yourself. And when you have confidence‚ you should commit yourself
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Sony is a vast corporation that operates in a global scale. In order for it continue its operations around the globe requires a great amount of materials that is used in manufacturing the end-product. Being a multinational organization its suppliers come from all four corners of the globe. Due to this factor of being a large multi-national corporation Sony is in business with many suppliers. Due to this large number of reliance on suppliers‚ diminishes the bargaining power suppliers have over
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