All those difficulties added to the hardest challenge for the colonists -trying to get the land to cooperate to make enough food to last them through the following winter. To add to that, there were the challenges of weather systems the colonists were not used to, as well as plants, bugs and animals that had to be dealt with. Everything in the Americas had to be created from scratch. Unlike in Europe, there were no established harbors, cities, merchant shops, churches, etc. So, while the uncertainty of the transatlantic voyage gave people pause, it was certainly worth the risk to ditch the omnipresent dangers of the European homeland.īut life in the new world was anything but easy. Yeah, Europe was a real tourist destination. War, schism, and plague would have made for an attractive travel brochure. And if that wasn’t enough, fear was still in many people’s minds due to the ongoing effects of the Bubonic Plague.
Danger lurked and tension was just about everywhere due to the ongoing Hundred Years War between Great Britain and France as well as the Great Papal Schism within the Roman Catholic Church. European cities were dirty and overcrowded. Since Christopher Columbus’ arrival in the fall of 1492, Europeans made the six-week journey from the old world in hopes of finding a better, or at least a different, way of life. The first Thanksgiving was a last-ditch effort for human survival in the New World. What better time to attempt to dispel some of the myths about the November event? While the day has been extended to a four-day weekend for many and is a great time to gather with family and friends, the very first one and the ones that immediately followed were not about reminiscing with family far from it. This Thanksgiving will be the 400th anniversary of the American holiday.
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