The Mayflower is the most famous colonial ship in the history of England's colonization of North America. Do you know what kind of luggage you will bring with you when you travel from mainland Europe to the New World? Before answering the questions, let's talk about what kind of ship the Mayflower is, what the passengers on board do, and the purpose of going.
The Mayflower was a three-masted galleon, which had not previously been a carry, but a cargo ship that carried wine between England and France. Why use this ship? The sponsor of this colonization trip to the New World was the Virginia Colonization Company at the time.
The price is that half of their income in the New World will go to the Virginia Colonization Company. The Virginia Colonization Company gave these people such a ship, of course, a second-hand cargo ship, cheap, low cost, and a cargo ship with a large capacity and a lot of materials that could be carried. After all, colonizing the New World is not a tourist. Since the sponsor asks for it, there is no way, the wine ship will transport the wine ship, and it will be okay to go anyway.
The Mayflower set sail in 1620 in the port of Plymouth, England. Among the passengers were 35 Puritans, 67 ordinary people. These passengers, 35 of them Puritans, were relatively wealthy.
The reason why they left England was because England at that time, from the time of Bloody Mary to James I, was to the Puritans, **a lot. These Puritans can't help it, rather than fighting for their lives, it must be to go to the New World.
In addition to these 35 Puritans, those 67 people are all ordinary people, and they can't get along in England, so to speak, those who don't work hard in England and can't get by.
The 35 Puritans wanted to build a place in the New World, and there was no religion. They have money, resources, and capabilities. 67 ordinary people, that is, pure wealth and danger, the local people can't get along, the New World has a lot of adventure, maybe they find a gold mine and get rich overnight.
After talking about what kind of ship this ship is, the composition and purpose of the passengers on board, let's talk about what luggage these passengers on board are carrying. To go to the New World, a completely unfamiliar place, there is not much reliable information to hear, after all, there are too few people who have been there.
At that time, there was no Internet, and there were no enthusiastic netizens who constantly uploaded ** in the New World, and there was no anchor who started a live broadcast over there, telling how he was looking for minerals, farming, and printing native people in the New World.
As for the sponsor of this event, the Virginia Colonization Company, because of the more than ten years, has been sending people to North America, so they have accumulated a little experience, and their advice to these people is to bring as many agricultural tools, food and seeds as possible, as well as necessary food, and of course, the most important musket.
In addition to the requirements of the sponsors, the must-haves, the rest of the luggage and materials that need to be carried, that is, the individual himself played, let's see what personal belongings these colonists have brought:
It's understandable to take books to the New World, after all, there was no entertainment at that time, and it was always better to have a book.
After all, there are so many people, there are always people with talents, bringing a musical instrument can relieve mental pressure, after all, far away from the homeland, it is likely that they will never come back.
With all kinds of furniture? This is really hard to understand. Traveling across the ocean, if you want to say love bed, forget it with a bed, with all kinds of furniture, which means that the house in England can't be taken away, there is no way.
It's not an exaggeration to bring so much furniture, but this big guy with 139 pairs of shoes and boots is really a bit exaggerated. With so many shoes and boots, it's a bit beyond imagination. We can only say that the big guy on the Mayflower is really rich and really likes to buy shoes.
History is the life and events of certain people in a certain period in the past. You don't have to go online for everything, so it is easy to get grounded, the most important thing is that we look at history, we have to be grounded, what modern people do are all kinds of tricks, and ancient people are the same.