New Amsterdam: The History Of Jamestown And New England

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The history of the Dutch in new Amsterdam didn’t contrast a lot with history of Jamestown and New England. In both cases as the colonizers came they made peace with the natives till some point where greed took over leading them to war and killing each other. On the other hand, the differences were like for New Amsterdam once the Dutch arrived they had a perfect location that was going to get them a lot of money and be a door to the new world but that wasn’t the case for Jamestown which was created on a land that was abandoned even by the natives themselves the locations as was described by the author of the The American Yawp “the location was a disaster”. One of the other things is that New Amsterdam faced some challenges, but it was brought

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