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Settlers choose to build jamestown on a peninsula because it was easy to defend from the Native Americans.

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it was built on the peninsula for safety reason. so enemies wont attack.

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They believed it would be safe from native attack.

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Why was Jamestown built on peninsula?

it was built on the peninsula for safety reason. so enemies wont attack.


What was Jamestown on not the peninsula?

An island in the James River.


What region is Jamestown in and is it a peninsula or an island?

Jamestown is an island in the state of Virginia in the eastern US.


What river was Jamestown built near?

The Jamestown colony was built along the James River. The Jamestown colony was built in the year 1607. The colony was located in the USA.


How was Jamestown built?

Jamestown was built in the shape of a triangle with rounded edges and cannons inside the edges.


How Jamestown built?

Jamestown was built in the shape of a triangle with rounded edges and cannons inside the edges.


What major city in northern California that is built on a peninsula?

San Francisco is built on a peninsula.


What year did the settlers build Jamestown?

Jamestown was built and settled in 1607.


What shorter river defines the peninsula where Jamestown was located?

York River


Who built Jamestown?

Jamestown was built by some 500 commercially inspired settlers from England sponsored by the Virgina Company of London.


When was the Jamestown colony built?

1495


What were the raw materials in Jamestown?

The,fort of Jamestown was built from local wood they chopped down.