LOCATION: The name for this biome, temperate grasslands, is a great description for what it is like here. The most important plants in this biome are grasses! Temperate grasslands have some of the darkest, richest soils in the world (not in wealth, but in nutrients).OCATION: The name for this biome, temperate grasslands, is a great description for what it is like here. The most important plants in this biome are grasses! Temperate grasslands have some of the darkest, richest soils in the world (not in wealth, but in nutrients).
The Starving Time Jamestowners, one of them portrayed here by Jared Larson, ran out of their beds Cryeinge owtt we are starved. Jamestown fort at the edge of the James River, where, as George Percy wrote There were never Englishmen left in a forreigne Countrey in such miserie. After the Starving Time of 1609â10, perhaps sixty of 500 English had survived famine, disease, and Indians.
Captain John Smith (1580-1631) was an English adventurer, soldier, explorer, and author. He is famous for his role in the exploration of the New World and is responsible for the settlement and survival of Jamestown, England's first permanent colony in America.