Description Of The Jamestown Colony

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The Jamestown colony wasn’t planned as it needed to be planned, if I was the founder of Jamestown I would’ve made sure that I knew how to grow crops and how to survive. John Smith and the other settlers came looking for gold and looking for a Northwest Passage or sailing route. They also arrived at the wrong time when a disease called malaria was coming from mosquitoes. If I was the settlers I would’ve selected a better place to build my colony off of. I would’ve also brought women on the first ship to help with the preparation of the food. I would’ve made sure I sent plenty of doctors as well as a large number of people that knew how to grow food and survive off of what they have. I would’ve sent plenty of tools to grow the crops with and

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