Blood on the River: Chpt. 21-23 Qs

Posted on October 28th, 2008 in Humanities by Gregory

Chpt. 21

1. No because you could kill someone for love and that wouldn’t be right.

Chpt. 22

1. The government of the Warraskoyack village is looser than and less complicated than that of Jamestown. All the food is shared and not rationed, unlike Jamestown. In Jamestown they had playing cards for conversation. The Native Americans had hunting, making jewelry, etc. In the Native American village everbody works and there are no “gentlemen”. The religions are definitely different.

Chpt. 23

1. For example, if another country became a superpower, it would gain power and the U.S. would lose power.

2.   Its saying and asking that why are the colonists attacking the Powhatans even thought it is the Powhatans that give us food. The colonists have an obvious disadvantage because the Native Americans can starve them to death. So now the colonists will starve because they attacked the Native Americans even though the Native Americans were helping them.

Blood on the River: Chpt. 18-20 Qs

Posted on October 28th, 2008 in Humanities by Gregory

Chpt. 18

1. A historical myth is something that happened in the past that is more fiction than fact. The historical fact is the opposite.

2. Because if the gentleman find out that they are like a tribe to Chief Powhatan they will get angry and stuff and people might get killed.

Chpt. 19

If I were one of the commoners in Jamestown when the law came into effect, I would have thought that it was quite reasonable because the colony was in hard times. But if I were a gentleman I wouldn’t like the decree because the gentleman never worked much to start with. If this were a law in our classroom, we could probably abide it but would hate it, parents would complain, school then gets sued for child cruelty…….

2.  When the two women arrive it is the year 1608. The woman make the settlement more complete but are a distraction to the men.

3. In the Indian religion there are a lot of gods but in Christianity there is only one god. However all the gods are very powerful. However certain Native American gods need sacrifices.