e twelve Apostles. ...Then, straw was wrapped around their torn bodies and they were burned alive." In the case of the English colonizations the relationship between the colonists and the natives was different because at first they get along pretty good but they ended in a state of war as we can see in the next quotation: At first, relations with the Indians continued friendly, though the Englishmen had their detractors in the Council of the Indian Chief. The aborigines planted crops and made fish traps for the Englishmen... Grenville's deplorable action in burning the village of Aquascogok was indicative of the fact that the high-spirited Englishmen of that day could not live on even terms with the natives. In the lean period between the planting of crops in the spring and the expected summer harvest, English relations with the Indians grew strained and finally reached the point at which no further supplies could be had from them... By June 1, 1586, the colonists were at open war with the Indians, and many of the latter were slain in the struggles that ensued both on Roanoke Island and on the mainland at Dasamonquepeuc. Pemisapan was among those who were killed in the fighting. (Life in the Colony, 199?, p. 1) Based on the quotation we can see that in this aspect the English colonists had some advantage from de Spanish colonists and the result was that they were easier to colonize and it was more effective. One other aspect that had a big impact in the success of the colonization was the role that the Church and the religion played. But the colonists faced a big barrier that was the language and that the natives have no idea about the believes of the Europeans. Here Mr. XXXXXXXXXXXx tries to explain us: 1. First, at the time of European contact, all but the simplest indigenous cultures in North America had developed coherent religious systems that included cosmologies--creation myths, transmitted orally from one generation to the next,...
