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On Fri, 03 Aug 2012 01:58:00 +0200, Warhol <mol...@hotmail.com> wrote:

>> Virginia wasn't 'imperial'.
>>
>> It was founded after Elizabeth's death
>>
>> It didn't become a 'crown colony' until the sixteen twenties.
>>
>> Twenty years later it rebelled...
>>
>> So where's you 400 years?
>>
>Four centuries ago the first settlers from war devastated zones arrived 
>in Virginia, 

What war?

There had, famously,  been no war in England since 1485.

There would be no war in England until 1642.

>Jamestown was the birthplace of representative government in North 
>America. The first democratically elected assembly met there in 1619. In 
>1699 the capital was moved to nearby Williamsburg, and there it remained 
>until the birth of the United States.

Between then England went from being a kingdom to being a republic to
being a dictatorship to being a kingdom again.

Virginia's government changed as well at least as many times.

>Like Roanoke before it, Jamestown almost didn't make it. An earlier 
>Spanish settlement just a few miles away, established in 1570, had been 
>wiped out by natives. The English settlement was threatened by both 
>Spain and the Pope... and protected by the Moor.

What 'moors'?