Sunday, September 23, 2012

Tempest in the Wilderness

4. How were the Irish and Natives alike?
Both the Irish and Natives were viewed as "savages" by the English. They were thought of as lazy, uneducated and weren't treated with any respect. They were both treated inhumanly by being beaten and sold as slaves which the English justified doing by saying it was the way god wanted. The English tried to convert both of them to Christianity which they thought would help them become more civilized and educated.

6. What did the various chiefs foresee and warn about the arrival of Europeans? How correct we're they? 
The native chiefs had anticipated the arrival of Europeans long before they had any contact with each other. One native had predicted that, "A strange white people would come to crowd out the red men," while another had foreseen that, "Bearded men should come and take away our country and that there should be none of the original Indians be left, within a hundred and fifty years." The natives were very correct, many of their visions came true almost exactly how they were seen.

14. What extreme did the Virginia's use to stay alive? What does that say about savagery and the English?
When the colonists of the New World ran out of food, they were forced to eat dogs, cats, rats, mice and even corpses dug from graves. A survivor reported that, "Some have even licked up the blood which hath fallen form their weak fellows." This shows that the English were just as "savage" or even more so than the Natives and Irish they thought they were so much better than.