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Flint · 06-07-2007, 06:46 PM

Yeah, that's a good point. It was strategically placed, and strategically timed. Who can blame them for thinking it was the hand of God?

xoxoxoBruce · 06-07-2007, 09:39 PM

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Originally Posted by Flint

Yeah, that's a good point. It was strategically placed, and strategically timed. Who can blame them for thinking it was the hand of God?

What do you mean by timed? The Spanish were running all over the place a hundred years before the Pilgrims.

Flint · 06-07-2007, 09:42 PM

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Originally Posted by xoxoxoBruce

What do you mean by timed? The Spanish were running all over the place a hundred years before the Pilgrims.

That's right. That's why the Pilgrims showed up to find cultivated fields and empty villages. Couldn't time it better than that.

xoxoxoBruce · 06-07-2007, 10:09 PM

There wasn't enough land for them because the locals already had that under cultivation. But just to the South there was plenty of good land so they told Massasoit they wanted to farm that land. Massasoit said have at it, because the village that had been there had been wiped out by disease, and non of the other Indians wanted anything to do with it.

But that village was wiped out in 1617, three years before the Pilgrims arrived. As a matter of fact, it was Squanto's village and they were gone when he came back in 1619. So yes, there were fields that had been cultivated but had laid fallow for several years.

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06-07-2007, 10:09 PM	#4
xoxoxoBruce The future is unwritten Join Date: Oct 2002 Posts: 71,105	There wasn't enough land for them because the locals already had that under cultivation. But just to the South there was plenty of good land so they told Massasoit they wanted to farm that land. Massasoit said have at it, because the village that had been there had been wiped out by disease, and non of the other Indians wanted anything to do with it. But that village was wiped out in 1617, three years before the Pilgrims arrived. As a matter of fact, it was Squanto's village and they were gone when he came back in 1619. So yes, there were fields that had been cultivated but had laid fallow for several years. __________________ The descent of man ~ Nixon, Friedman, Reagan, Trump.

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