Play the Jamestown game from the link below and tell the class how you did. What areas did you do well in? What ares needed improvement? What did you learn?
http://www.historyglobe.com/jamestown/
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what a stupid game
ReplyDeleteThe indians killed me :D:D:D:D:D
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ReplyDeletei found that corn was a good choice to keep the people healthy, but also planted tobacco for a good money supply, i did not make everyone work only indentured servents. Learned that food was more of a necessity than gold, and you need to be nice to indians if you dont want to die
ReplyDeleteThe Bay Island seemed to be the best place to land due to the lack of disease. The indians were friendly if trading with them and although building a village results in poor defense it is good for heath reasons. I planted corn and tobacco (corn for food and tobacco for money)and hunted instead of searching for gold. The labor was done by indentured servants in order to keep everyone (besides servants) happy. I recieved good in all areas and was promoted governor! It was hard making decesions the first time and I could only imagine what the real colonists had to decide, because they didn't just get a rating of good or fair, but it was do or die.
ReplyDeleteThe best outcome that I was able to achieve was Good, Good, Good, Good Gov. o' Virginia. For choosing where to land, your best choices are the costal bluff (my fav)or bay island, because the Marshlands aren't helpful unless you have a strange desire to obtain Malaria and if you try to land at the inland, the indians will just rub you out like an unhappy mob boss.
ReplyDeleteIf you build on the costal bluff you need a fort, while on bay island you need a village to keep up with sanitation. Always trade with the indians, because attacking them would just lead to your eventual doom (plus it increases wealth and moral, as you won't be as likely to be polished off in the middle of the night.)
I made everyone work (the gentlemen can just suck it up), and had them search for gold and fish. The fish provided food, and the gold made the colonists happy (well looking for it anyway...), even though it is quite obvious the existance of gold there is less likely than a feminist James Bond.
I found that the best things to plant are 2 corn and 1 tobacco, to provide them with food and wealth respectively.
Everything i thought was going to be right killed all of my people, so this game has shown me how hard it was to live back then.
ReplyDeleteAfter realizing how hard it is to play this game and get a perfect score, I can't even think of how difficult it would have been for the origonal settlers at Jamestown to survive, coexist with the indians, and live in a foregin land which they had barely any knowledge about.
ReplyDeleteI never got a perfect score. The best I managed was Good, Fair, Good. Basically I think the two places I went wrong were building the fort, instead of a town and living inland. It may have been easier to stay on the coastal bluff, but the advice was to follow the river as far as you could go. Both times I forced all citizens to work which may have been bad for moral, but looking for gold and planting tabacco helped more as well as wealth in the case of the tabacco. All in all I learned that the native americans must have been hard to deal with, if they were that stubborn (even when doing everything you could to coorperate) and that it wasn't simply food and houseing (though that posed difficulties) but also moral that played a major role in the creation of the settlement.
ReplyDeleteAfter playing this game, I found that when you dismiss common sense it is very easy to get an awful score. When placing yourself in a colonist perspective in this game, you find yourself making the same decessions they most likely made, when trying to settle the new world. Decessions like where to settle, what sort of community to construct, what plants to cultivate, and weather to maintain peace, or attack the natives. I found that settling on Bay Island, creating a fort, creating a friendship with the indians, and planting corn and tabacco were all good choices to make. I had everyone work, no special treatment, sorry gentlemen. And in the end came up with a good score.
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