Pocahontas helped end the war in 1614 when she married John Rolfe (not Captain John Smith) and promoters of colonization publicized her story as an example of the good work of converting the uncivilized Powhatan to Christianity.
Starting a war and ending it with just a marriage is just weird to think about.
The settlers’ unwillingness and inability to grow their own food compounded their problems.
Its weird that they simply wouldn't just grow their own food.
The Indians tolerated the newcomers because their numbers were modest and because the French supplied them with firearms for their ongoing wars with the Iroquois, who had received weapons from their Dutch trading partners
Normally indigenous are quick to defend from any newcomers.
The Spanish image of an ideal colonial society included natives eager to work and embrace Christianity, mountains of gold and silver, and a social order where everyone knew their place. Patriarchy and social hierarchy shaped the Spanish colonial world
Its so interesting to learn about different cultures.
When I saw them making a move to fire at us, I rested my musket against my cheek and aimed directly at one of the three chiefs. With the same shot two fell to the ground, and one of their men was so wounded that he died some time after.
Just so sad that everything is still involving violence.
We set out the next day, continuing our course in the river as far as the entrance of the lake. There are many pretty islands here, low and containing very fine woods and meadows with abundance of fowl and such animals of the chase as stags, fallow-deer, fawns, roe-bucks, bears, and others which go from the mainland to these islands.
Its interesting how now almost everywhere you go there's a city, but back then all you would see is forests and animals with pretty meadows.
Yet we found no towns nor many of their houses, although we saw many Indians which are tall big boned men, all naked saving they cover their privy parts with a black-hued skin, much like a Blacksmith’s apron, tied about their middle and between their legs behind.
I wonder why they wouldn't of built any towns if there were plenty of stones around to make houses.
a bright tin dish most pleased him which he presently took up and clapt it before his breast. And after made a hole in the brim thereof and hung it about his neck, making signs that it would defend him against his enemies’ arrows.
It is so cool how armor has changed going from simple tin discs into being completely covered in medal to protect from enemies.
The houses have flat roofs and walls of stone and mud,
I could never imagine living in a stone and concrete house. Its so interesting seeing and reading about evolution.
And in that space our General mustered and trained his men on land in warlike manner, to make them fit for all occasions.
Its almost a little sad that everything has to be made in a warlike manner. Of course defending is very important, but sometimes training in warlike manners can cause more confliction.
but they could not tell if they were human beings or animals; and it seemed to them that there were fields where they thought might also be villages, and they saw a forest whose foliage looked beautiful.
Its interesting to read about new findings of villages and new people, potentially finding new resources that could help with medicines.