FIRST CONTACTS 28000 BCE 1821 CE
SPANISH EXPLORERS
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Question
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They planted crops and were successful
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They went home due to lack of food
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They made friends with Native Americans
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They were killed
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Detailed explanation-1: -The first Roanoke colonists did not fare well, suffering from dwindling food supplies and Indian attacks, and in 1586 they returned to England aboard a ship captained by Sir Francis Drake. In 1587, Raleigh sent out another group of 100 colonists under John White.
Detailed explanation-2: -Why did Roanoke colony fail? It was, like later English colonies, poorly supplied, and the first colonists were actively hostile toward local Native people. This lack of allies would have made survival as an autonomous community especially difficult-surviving as distinctly Englishmen and women may have been impossible.
Detailed explanation-3: -Historians have posited that the colonists were killed by Native Americans or hostile Spaniards, or that they died off due to disease or famine, or were victims of a deadly storm. Fragments of early English pottery were found by archaeologists with the First Colony Foundation.