population shrank from 105 to 32 during the first few years. * Indians struggles to survive, too. English diseases like small pox proved an inescapable menace. Between the year of Jamestown’s establishment in 1607 and the end of the century, their population would fall from about 25,000 to 2,000. Opechanchanough killed almost a quarter of Virginia’s population in 1622. * Captain John Smith’s decision to introduce harsh, military discipline, gave the colony the structure it needed to survive, while…
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