HIST 020 Lecture Notes - Starving Time, Opchanacanough, Headright
29 Jan 2014
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Virginia, 1606-1610: london company- business venture, king james issues a charter to the london company and the plymouth. Company: plymouth company goes out of business immediately, the london company is composed of knights, gentlemen, merchants, and other adventurers of our city of london , they had 3 ships (godspeed, susan constant, and discovery) carrying. ~ 1 : they sail into the chesapeake bay, up what is now called the. 27 year old mercenary (hired soldier: adventurer, talented natural leader & huge self-promoter, famous for supposedly single-handedly beheading three turks, escaping for jail, and sailing back to england on a pirate ship v. Imposes many new rules, such as, he that will not work, shall not eat : organizes people into work group , each group has its own task to accomplish. ~ 2 : draws a map of jamestown and the surrounding area.
