HISTORY 7A Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Yellow Fever, London Company, Plymouth Company
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Lecture 5: virginia in the 17th century- the labo. Problem and the making of north american slav. He believed to get to india and china and japan, there must be a northwest passage going around and over the new continent. He went across the north atlantic with his fleet, never finding a northwest passage but discovered gold in canada, bringing it back to england and finding out it was pyrite- fool"s gold. Same motivations for spanish and english; it worked well for the spanish iii. iv. b. Humphry gilbert"s newfoundland project i. ii. iii. iv. v. Difficult to grow crops there because of the climate. They believed that climate depended on latitude, which was true in europe but not in america. His ventures failed and his fleet was lost on the way back to. Sir walter raleigh and the roanoke fiasco i.
