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.
In 1619 a Dutch slave ship brought Africans to Jamestown. The captain of the ship traded his slaves for food and the Africans became indentured servants. White farmers traded their tobacco for slaves and made them work on their tobacco plantations.African indentured servants were usually very cheap.obacco was easy to grow in Virginia but the colonists could not harvest all of the tobacco by themselves. Both white people from Europe and Africans were brought to Jamestown to help with the farming. Europeans came to Jamestown because they wanted work and to live in the new colony.