Settling In Charles Town Case Study

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What are the Difficulties of settling in Charles Town? Charles Town was founded in 1670 in South Carolina.Charles Town was a battleground with multiple countries trying to settle there including native americans.Charles town is known as charleston today is well known for their many tourist attractions and filled with many people. Unfortunately there were many difficulties to settling in Charles Town.Charlestown was difficult to settle because of geography, resources and diseases. Geography made it difficult to settle in Charles Town for many reasons.Charles Towns map was very difficult to read and was unidentifiable . Leading settlers to get lost. Cartographers also known as a map maker had some challenging obstacles to get

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