Roanoak island?

Question

okay. i have to wright a 'fictional history story' for a history class i'm taking... so i need some theorys about what happend at Roanoak island (did i spell that right?). so anyway thanks.

Answer 1

Five Popular Theories:

1. The people of Roanoke simply left the settlement.
This is one of the more probable theories. It is said that they have supposedly left Roanoke island and started settling in the Chesapeake Bay. And that they built rafts or a boat of some sort using materials torn apart from their houses. Close to twenty years had passed before John Smith and his group started the well-known settlement of Jamestown (where the popular story of Pocahontas takes place). This settlement was near the Chesapeake Bay. The evidence in this tale is that the ruler of the natives did indeed admit to killing the colonists. They said that they had been in their land (Chesapeake Bay area) and were then annihilated to prevent more English settlers form stealing their land.

2.The whole population of Roanoke Island was killed by a disease.
This is an absurd theory. It is true that the English had brought over some diseases. However, note, there were no bodies found and the houses had disappeared. Quite a ridiculous theory.

3. The village was destroyed by a severe storm such as a hurricane.
Another one of the incredulous theories. A hurricane could have washed away the colonists and destroyed the houses, true. But the huge problem with this theory is the fence was still standing. It is not possible for a storm to do as much damage as clearing away the whole settlement when the fence remained untouched.

4. The people of Roanoke decided to leave Roanoke Island to live with the Natives.
This theory is definitely probable. Crotoan, which was carved on the post, was the name of an island in the area. It was also the name of the group of the kind natives that inhabited it. It is possible that they colonists decided to live with the natives of Croatoan. Though there has not been a descent amount of evidence to prove this theory, there also has been no evidence against it.

5. The colonists were killed by the Native Americans
This is the most probable of all five theories. One important fact supports this theory. As one may not know, the English men had before tried to start the colony of Roanoke before. Twas a group of fifteen men. A little over a year had passed since they first started the colony, before explorers decided to check up on their hopeful progress. What these explorers found was one dead body. It was verified that it was the work of the Natives. From this past event we know that the Natives were capable of such atrocities and also capable of hiding the bodies. What’s interesting is that the Natives pulled all of that off in between less than a two year period. While the “lost colony” had been deprived of its leader for a number of three years. The “Indians” had a sufficient amount of time to tear down the buildings too. However there has still not been enough evidence to verify this theory.

*credit from theshadowlands.net*

Answer 2

A Stephen King-ish approach: one day after the ship leaves, a member of the colony is missing. Search parties are launched but he's never found.
The next day, another colonist is missing. Then the third day another colonist, and then another. It never happens when people are awake and so colonists stop sleeping, but invariably they end up falling asleep and when they do another person's missing. Finally it's down to two colonists- a man and a woman- and they vow to stay together and not sleep. They fall in love and make love, then lie in each other's arms and fall asleep. When he wakes up, she's gone.

Each time one disappears, a crow appears. The person writes "CRO" (which in Elizabethan would have spelled crow), then sees a crow, and says "Take me to them" and that's the end. Later an Indian, examining the abandoned colony, finds a letter book and carves CROATOAN, just because he likes the shapes and thinks they're designs.

OR.... it turns out the colonists were bored and so they invented the game SURVIVOR, constantly voting one person off the island. The last person left to meet with Indian advertising execs.

Answer 3

1) The Roanoke Colony never vanished. It was the *rest* of the world that got shunted into an alternate timeline.

2) Roanoke has become like Brigadoon and it actually reappears every 100 years.

3) The Flying Dutchman came by and took them.

4) Some Cthulhu-like horror took them away.

5) They've been taken away by our descendants way down the timeline to rejuvenate a depleted genetic stock.

6) Aliens scooped them up and placed them on a colony in Betelgeuse. This remote human civilization is now quite advanced.

Answer 4

If you are supposed to write a story about Roanoak Island, then you DO know it is NOT the oldest european colony. That honor belongs to some much older colonies in New Mexico.

Answer 5

maybe the Indians attacked and made them slaves somewhere else and took everything they had with them

i'm serous,this is what my sisters history book says what might have happened because they found some Indian tribe carved on a tree I think it was like Crotoan or something like that.

sorry I'm not very good at history but I hope this helps

Answer 6

aliens. it's perfect. the ship came down took everyone except one person who was running and right before the aliens got him he left the clue roanoak behind. make the clue to mean whatever you want.

Answer 7

Well one fictional history of the Lost Colony of Roanoke is that no one died and they all lived on safe and sound thanks to a Native American named "Rojaz" who turned out to be Captain America who had come back in time.

Answer 8

I go with the theory that they all joined the Indians of that area and were incorporated into the tribe. it's "Roanoke".

Answer 9

They wanted to make history. They hightailed it outta there! ;) Maybe a tribe was going to attack, and they some how figured it out.... My last theroy is aliens...illegal aliens! They were deported! ;)