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There was that confusing moment in grade school history class where they casually stated that the pilgrims found a translator among the Indians. Moving on. Umm
by hinkley 1y ago
There was that confusing moment in grade school history class where they casually stated that the pilgrims found a translator among the Indians. Moving on.
Umm... How tf did the Indians have someone who already spoke English? Jamestown isn't exactly a short walk, even if it has been a dozen years.
Yeah because fisherman had already been trading with them. But that's 1620, not 1491. It's reasonable to think fisherman had been leveraging this information a century after it was known.
- IAmBroom 1y agoThe fault is in your teachers pretending that the pilgrims discovered jack-all. They meant to be farmers, but did not pack shovels. They were a grumpy religious splinter group that couldn't get along with others, not amazing explorers of the "New World". It's often mockingly said that they landed when they ran out of beer, which is true, but not because of frustrated frat bro reasons - they ran out of drinking water, more generally. And small beer was more nutritious than intoxicating.