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SCOUT· 36%1h 02m·2021-08-06·HistoryBefore Jamestown: When England Colonized the Amazon -- A Conversation with Melissa Morris
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How did the early colonists in Virginia know that they could profitably grow a species of tobacco from South America? They learned about it from the series of mostly short-lived English, French, and Dutch colonies and outposts in tropical South America, between the Amazon and Orinoco rivers, in the area called…
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