Virginia Company | Wikipedia audio article
Channel: wikipedia tts
Date: 2019-01-02

This is an audio version of the Wikipedia Article:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virginia_Company


00:02:02 1 The Plymouth Company
00:03:21 2 The London Company
00:07:29 3 The First charter of the Virginia Company of London -1606
00:08:22 4 The Second charter of the Virginia Company of London -1609
00:09:08 5 The Third Charter of the Virginia Company of London-1612
00:09:40 6 ”The Great Charter”
00:11:09 7 Dissolution
00:11:50 8 Heraldry
00:13:16 9 See also



Listening is a more natural way of learning, when compared to reading. Written language only began at around 3200 BC, but spoken language has existed long ago.

Learning by listening is a great way to:
- increases imagination and understanding
- improves your listening skills
- improves your own spoken accent
- learn while on the move
- reduce eye strain

Now learn the vast amount of general knowledge available on Wikipedia through audio (audio article). You could even learn subconsciously by playing the audio while you are sleeping! If you are planning to listen a lot, you could try using a bone conduction headphone, or a standard speaker instead of an earphone.

Listen on Google Assistant through Extra Audio:
https://assistant.google.com/services/invoke/uid/0000001a130b3f91
Other Wikipedia audio articles at:
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=wikipedia+tts
Upload your own Wikipedia articles through:
https://github.com/nodef/wikipedia-tts
Speaking Rate: 0.7515126845314607
Voice name: en-GB-Wavenet-A


"I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think."
- Socrates


SUMMARY
=======
The Virginia Company refers collectively to two joint-stock companies chartered under James I on 10 April
1606 with the goal of establishing settlements on the coast of North America. The companies were called the "Virginia Company of London" (or the London Company) and the "Virginia Company of Plymouth" (or the Plymouth Company); they operated with identical charters but with differing territories. An area of overlapping territory was created within which the two companies were not permitted to establish colonies within one hundred miles of each other.  The Plymouth Company never fulfilled its charter, but its territory was claimed by England and became New England.
The original charter by King James in 1606 did not mention a Virginia Company or a Plymouth Company, these being latter day names applied to the enterprise. There was the company of knights, gents, merchants and adventurers of London and the company of knights, gents, merchants and adventurers of the city of Bristol, Exeter, and the town of Plymouth. The eastern seaboard of America was then named Virginia from Maine to the Carolinas. Florida was under Spanish dominion.As corporations, the companies were empowered by the Crown to govern themselves, and it wasn't until dissolution of the third Charter in 1621 that this right was  conferred  onto the colonies. The Virginia Company failed in 1624, but the right to self-government was not taken from the colony. The principle was thus established that a royal colony should be self-governing, and this formed the genesis of democracy in America.