Fourtune Isles!

Which of the Fortune Isles would be most easily colonized by the Romans/Byzantines?

  • Bermuda

    Votes: 1 1.7%
  • Azores

    Votes: 6 10.0%
  • Canary Islands

    Votes: 41 68.3%
  • Maderia

    Votes: 12 20.0%
  • Cape Verde

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Total voters
    60
Third Installment

Fuertaventura 203- May 16 Tuesday.
The Christians land on the island of Fuertaventura. Immediatly they went to work. Most of the Christians began cutting down trees for timer, while others scouted for a site for there settlement. On one such scouting mission the Christians found little white dogs and from then on the islands were reffered to as Insulae Canourm "Island of the Dogs". Eventually it was decided that they would build thier city on the end of a penninsula. Although Sandy, it was the best defended position.

Fuertaventura 203- May 17-Wendsday. The foundations of the Church are laid and a stockade around the settlement begins to form. They also begin farming the countryside

Fuertaventura 203-July 2 The homes of the settlement are just about complete and so is the town hall, church, and dock. They officaily name the Settlement Novapolis "New City". The ironsmith is completed and weapons are being made for defense. Soon smoke begins rising from the settlement and attracts unwanted visitors. Natives arrive outside of the settlement in shock, they had neven seen a city before. They thought the christians were gods. They begin praising them like they were gods, this insults the christians. Most navties are dismissed, some of them become slaves, and one sick chritsian transmits his disease to one of the natives.

Fuertaverntura 203-July 27 after disease breaks out amongst the natives they figure out the chirstians are not gods and think the disease is the newcommers fault. The Natives decided to attack them and remove them forever.
 
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More Questions,
First, although the christians just arrived would they be a match in a military situation against the natives? Also could we see plantations develop with the natives as slaves? Would there be multiple outbreaks of disease amoungst the natives? Will eventually the settlers be forced to move?
 
Too far, too fast...

...Although I've been accused of this...

200 people is just enough to start a VERY SMALL town, but I'm not sure that you've done well enough by going to the Canaries anyway. The fishermen in Gades or other Iberian ports might know of the Madeiras as good ports in a storm. Above all, nobody there. You've got Christians neither afraid of their own shadows or illusory 'Monsters of Ocean'. In your shoes I'd go for the mysterious 'Fortunate Islands', even if there are tales of demons, monsters and so on guarding them.

Don't waste time in the Canaries - your colonising force is too meagre.
 
Then get them to Madeira, PDQ!!!

To go to the Canaries, follow African/Moroccan coast south west. To go to Madeira, go west from the Pillars of Hercules. C'm on - you can do it...:D
 
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