Captain John Smith

Japanese: キャプテン・ジョン・スミス - きゃぷてんじょんすみす
Captain John Smith


[The era of military conquest and armed resistance]
(1) Colonial Period (1600-1760s) It is often said that contact between Indians and whites began with friendship and ended with hostility, but this is not true. In Virginia, the first British colony, Captain John Smith and his men intimidated the Powhatan tribe with weapons from the beginning, forcing them to surrender corn and starting a war. The "marital peace" between Pocahontas and John Rolfe was also a balance of terror rather than friendship, and it resulted in a major Powhatan uprising in 1622, followed by a war of conquest that lasted for 20 years until resistance ceased.

*Some of the terminology that refers to "Captain John Smith" is listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:


[軍事的征服と武力抵抗の時代]
 (1)植民地時代(1600‐1760年代) インディアンと白人との接触は友好に始まり敵対に終わったとしばしばいわれるが,それは事実ではない。イギリス最初の植民地バージニアではキャプテン・ジョン・スミスらははじめから武器をもってポーハタン族を威嚇し,トウモロコシの供出を強制し戦争をしかけた。ポカホンタスとジョン・ロルフの〈結婚の平和〉も,友好というよりは恐怖の均衡であり,1622年のポーハタン族の大蜂起に結果し,以後20年抵抗がやむまで征服戦争がつづいた。…

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