Besides, another major problem encountered by the colonists there was polluted water. Since Jamestown was located at the estuary point of the river. The estuary point is where the river water and the salty water from the ocean meet, causing swirling water with high content of salt. Since the river is the only water supply for Jamestown, colonists in Jamestown got killed from the polluted and salty water. All these problems caused the “starving time” in the period of 1609-1610 in Jamestown with extremely high death rate.
An unfamiliar climate, as well as brackish water supply and lack of food, conditions possibly aggravated by a prolonged drought; led to disease and death. Many of the original colonists were upper-class Englishmen, and the colony lacked
It was an acute and highly infectious disease and the fatality rate for this unexposed population was often high. 2.Malnutrition Indigenous people also suffered from malnutrition. They lost the traditional lifestyle and their diets were altered due to the European’s growing settlement. Tress and plants were destroyed,waterways were dirtied, and the large animals escaped. The land was no longer able for them to hunt and gather food and they couldn’t to the new food such as sugar and flour.
This was followed by a cold spell in August and September. Because of this weather, corn and oats could not ripen, and wheat and rye completely failed, creating a smaller harvest than usual (29-32). Within months, the whole country was hungry. Prices had risen on what food was available. The King tried implementing several policies to increase the food supply, such as price controls on livestock and restrictions on the production of ales and other products made from the limited supply of grain.
The Native Americans have been affected by disease by the Europeans, during this period European settlers brought many different technologies and their lifestyles with them, but the most harmful effect is their arrival and the spread of their diseases. The most harmful disease that the Europeans have brought was small pox. The disadvantages are that the Local tribal customs were destroyed or forever altered.
Death was rampant at this time. Diseases such as smallpox, measles, malaria, influenza, and yellow fever were transferred from the old wold to The Europeans had been exposed to these sicknesses before and had different cures and ways of fighting it. But when the Indians caught wind of these illnesses they were devastated by the effects. There tribes were very susceptible, through the air and through touch. They were a more isolated human, so when the Europeans came and took over there immune systems were not at all prepared to face and fight back al;l the diseases that came there way.
The impoverished areas of New Orleans suffered the greatest losses because the houses were poorly built and many people were not educated on the danger of the coming storm. Even after the storm passed, any average Joe could walk down the streets of New Orleans, “Past variation after variation on a single theme: upended cars and boats, wrecked houses with roofs smashed in, front walls spray-painted with numbers and dates signifying when the house had been searched and how many dead bodies had been found” (Hertsgaard 130). The most preposterous part of the entire event was the sluggish and
Medical knowledge was helpless in the face of pandemics like the mid-third-century plague, and Roman families could no longer populate the empire." (Sherman & Salisbury, 153) Perhaps the greatest factor that led to the population decline was the lack of offspring. " The future of Rome...depended on offspring to carry on the family and other cultural traditions. Yet throughout the empire, had a particularly hard time reproducing. (Sherman & Salisbury, 149) Lack of knowledge on children's and woman's healthcare resulted in a low birthrate. "
Whilst I agree that the poor weather was factor in the suffering of the soldiers during the Crimean war, it was not the sole reason for their suffering; it was just another factor that made a bad situation worse. The main cause of the suffering was incompetence as a result of the poor organisation and lack of adequate preparation by the British Army. As the war had been planned as a 12 week rather than a 12 month campaign, the soldiers were not equipped for the conditions they faced during the winter of 1854-55. Troops had been sent out with summer uniform, tents were not waterproof or insulated against the cold. Balaclava harbour was very small and busy and the roads out of Balaclava were poor leading to great difficulties in transporting goods to the troops on the higher ground around Sebastopol.
And because of that they had no money for food and there was lack of food. Then they had to move to south to find a better place to survive. These show their hardships they had during that time cause by bad weather and harvest then they had no choice except go for their migration. In The article of The Great Depression shows us they had problem with the stock market. The stock market crashed during