Explain three ways that early colonists adapted to their environments to survive.

They learned how to build houses and to grow food from the local Indians.
The Indians also helped them, giving food.
The Indians taught the colonists many things, how to clean the house, how to live in that environment. But the colonists simply asked for what they wanted from the Indians, and that eventually led to an Indian attack on the colonists, who repaid by destroying the tribes.