History of Virginia
The History of Virginia begins with documentation by the first Spanish explorers to reach the area in the 1500s, when it was occupied chiefly by Algonquian, Iroquoian, and Siouan peoples. After a failed English attempt to settle Virginia in the 1580s by Sir Walter Raleigh, permanent European settlement began in Virginia with Jamestown in 1607. The colony was a commercial venture sponsored by London businessmen, who sent individual men to Virginia to look for gold. They did not send families. There was no gold, and the colonists could barely feed themselves. The colony nearly failed until tobacco emerged as a profitable export. It was grown on plantations, using primarily indentured servants for the intensive hand labor involved.. After 1662, the colony turned black slavery into a hereditar
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History of Virginia
The History of Virginia begins with documentation by the first Spanish explorers to reach the area in the 1500s, when it was occupied chiefly by Algonquian, Iroquoian, and Siouan peoples. After a failed English attempt to settle Virginia in the 1580s by Sir Walter Raleigh, permanent European settlement began in Virginia with Jamestown in 1607. The colony was a commercial venture sponsored by London businessmen, who sent individual men to Virginia to look for gold. They did not send families. There was no gold, and the colonists could barely feed themselves. The colony nearly failed until tobacco emerged as a profitable export. It was grown on plantations, using primarily indentured servants for the intensive hand labor involved.. After 1662, the colony turned black slavery into a hereditar
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La Virginie est la première co ...... 'Ouest, comme la Ohio Company.
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La historia de Virginia sobre ...... nos a la historia de Virginia.
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The History of Virginia begins ...... onservative in state politics.
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バージニア州の歴史（バージニアしゅうのれきし）では、現在のアメリカ合衆国バージニア州の地域に、数千年前インディアン部族が住み着いてからの歴史を概説する。
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La Virginie est la première co ...... 'Ouest, comme la Ohio Company.
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La historia de Virginia sobre ...... ica y poblada de Norteamérica.
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The History of Virginia begins ...... black slavery into a hereditar
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バージニア州の歴史（バージニアしゅうのれきし）では、現在のアメリカ合衆国バージニア州の地域に、数千年前インディアン部族が住み着いてからの歴史を概説する。
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Histoire de la Virginie
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Historia de Virginia
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History of Virginia
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バージニア州の歴史
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