European Settlers In William Bradford's Of Plymouth Plantation

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Have you ever wondered what positive things European settlers brought to the Americas. The settlers brought and met new animals, new weapons, and new language. How they brought and met new animals: In the story of “Balboa” he brought new breeds of dogs to Central America. How they brought new weaponry: In the story of “Of Plymouth Plantation” they brought guns and cannons. They brought new language to the natives. There are a lot of positive things the European settlers bring to the new land. Balboa has met a jaguar which is a lot more different than where he has come from. He then hears a twig snap and then his dog, Leoncico comes out from the bushes. So he brought his dogs to Central America. In Of Plymouth Plantation, William Bradford described that they found a dead grumpus (dolphin) from a storm. They ate the grumpus and harvest the blubber for lanterns. The natives, they found had a small groups scattered across the land they notice they had dogs. The Pilgrims ate venison, fish, quail, corn, and grumpus.

In the “Of Plymouth Plantation” they use weapons to defend themselves or to hunt The Indians started to fire arrows at them, so they fired their guns at them. In Balboa, he brings his musket and warns the Spaniards that if they follow then he will use it. Then he hears
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Whenever he visited his mother sometimes he couldn’t understand her or couldn’t translate what she was saying. He wishes to learn the language when he was a child. He wants his relatives to forgive him for not learning the language. In “Of Plymouth Plantation” the natives caught on the English language from spying on the European settlers. Squanto the one who speaks better English than Samoset. The European settlers made peace with the natives’ great Sachem, called Massasoit. They made the first “laws” between Natives and White Settlers. Which

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