Essay On Why Did Jamestown Die

Jamestown: Why Did So Many Die? Jayleen Guan Period: 6 Did you ever wonder why so many colonist died in Jamestown? Well I’m here to tell you why. It took place in the year 1607 to 1610 at Jamestown. The English settlers who were mostly females and males went to Jamestown. Life there was very tough and hardworking with lots of diseases and death. The question I’m answering is Why did so many colonist at Jamestown die because of diseases? Diseases killed so many english settlers because of different reasons.
Diseases and food resources were one of the reasons why many colonist died. Document A showed me that the island wasn’t situated at a point of great natural food abundance. That contributed to the deaths in Jamestown because they experience a long period of time with a lack of food resources. Another thing document A showed me was that diseases in early years at Jamestown position at the salt-freshwater transition, where filth was introduced into the water and people drank from it. The last evidence came from document C were they only had one surgeon to help cure the …show more content…
Document E showed me that they didn’t have a good relationship with the colonists because most of them were killed by the indians. That contributed to the deaths because the Indians weren’t very nice so the colonist annoyed them so they killed them for example attacking them. Document E also showed me that out of 294 colonists that arrived in Jamestown by summer of 1609, seven of them were killed by the indians in 1607 and 50 killed in 1609-1610. That contributed to the deaths because the more the indians killed the colonists, the less colonist there would be. The last thing I got from document E was that two colonists died in the 1st indian attack, at least three died in indian ambushes and two died in the capturing. After all, indian attacks were also another thing that affected the deaths in