In the early sixteen hundreds, the Virginia Company of London launched three ships to the Americas in effort to establish the first successful English colony. The arrival of Captain John Smith and other settlers would mark the beginning of a conflict between the Powhatan Confederacy and the English, untellable brutality, war, and famine that would inevitably affect the lives of both. “White settlers wanted the Indians’ land and had the strength to take it; the Indians could not live without their land” (Townsend, 178). Powhatan’s dilemma was that he would have a decision to make on behalf of his people; would he choose to destroy Jamestown and risk the arrival of more newcomers to avenge the settlers’ death; or, perhaps, he could make “friends” with the foreigners in hopes that through trade (corn for guns and other valuable goods), he could gain power and in turn overthrow surrounding tribes who potentially posed a threat. Most colonists traveled to the New World in search for new beginnings, lush forests, foreign animals, abundant and profitable farmland, gold and silver, while others voyaged across the dangerous seas for the thrill and adventure of it. Once arriving in the New World, it would be necessary for the English settlers to be equipped with the basic knowledge of their unfamiliar lands. The Native Americans were neither inexperienced nor destitute. Although the English settlers possessed great technological advances that the Indians did not, Powhatan knew that they would rely solely on his people to educate them on the cultivation of land. How had the settlers planned to colonize the New World? “Who but the Indians would tell the settlers what they needed to know-about navigable rivers, food crops, water supplies, and the like?” (Townsend, 35). Powhatan was well aware of what he was up against; never underestimating the power of the English settlers but never thinking of themselves or their culture as i