HIST 103 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Protestantism, Mortality Rate, Starving Time
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Was supposed to be taken back to spain to be groomed for catholicism. Wants to go back to virginia, claims he will convert the powhatans to catholicism. When opechancanough comes back to virginia, he lives his life as he did before the spaniards took him. Bad blood starts well before the english arrive. Indians assume that the other europeans coming in later are not much different from the spaniards that they have encountered. Indians that were present in 1585 when the roanoke colony landed in modern-day. North carolina were previously aware of europeans due to oral tradition. Don"t meet them with open arms and friendship, but are not openly hostile to them. Powhatan"s rule: not through love but through strength; strongest when he has the greatest military capability. Contact with europeans is a continuing story for the indians. East-coast colonies were set up for pirates. Most listed on censuses were gentlemen (soldiers)
