attacked and killed a French diplomat

it made me tremble to see the Sight

he seeks out and is willing to join in society with others who are already united

Whitefield was a former actor with a dramatic style of preaching and a simple message.

only elite members of society eligible to serve in elected positions

you are banished from out of our jurisdiction

f white and black acting together to challenge authority

Slavery was particularly troublesome for some pacifist Quakers of Pennsylvania on the grounds that it required violence

Persistently independent and with republican sympathies, the settlers refused a governor and instead elected a president and council

In contrast, England appointed Virginia's governor, while in Maryland, the governor was appointed by the Calvert family, which owned the colony.

came unarmed into our houses, without bows or arrows, or other weapons, with deer, turkeys, fish, furs, and other provisions to sell and truck with us for glass, beads, and other trifle

Fewer than half of the original colonists survived the first nine months.

The Crown granted missionaries the right to live among Timucua and Guale villagers in the late 1500s and early 1600s and encouraged settlement through the encomienda system (grants of Indian labor).

European explorers, meanwhile, had hoped to find great wealth in Florida, but reality never aligned with their imaginations.

not only stabbing them and dismembering them but cutting them to pieces as if dealing with sheep in the slaughter house.

But I should not say "than beasts" for, thanks be to God, they have treated beasts with some respect;

Pigs ran rampant through the Americas, transforming the landscape as the spread throughout both continents.

After two years of conflict, a million-person strong empire was toppled by disease, dissension, and a thousand European conquerors.

When Obatala returned to his home in the sky for a visit, Olokun summoned the great waves of her vast oceans and sent them surging across the land.

He was given permission, so he sought advice from Orunmila, oldest son of Olorun and the god of prophecy.

Everyday she had something new that she had to have. These were the results of being pregnant and carrying her child.

So pretty soon, the otter decided he said, “ I think there is some dirt or mud way, way down at the bottom of the ocean. IF we brought up some of that mud, perhaps we could put it on turtle’s back and perhaps this creature from the sky world could live and sustain herself on the back of turtle.”

In the sky world, there were beautiful, beautiful trees and wonderful plants with bright colors and delicious fruits to be eaten.

And God made the firmament, and divided the waters which were under the firmament from the waters which were above the firmament: and it was so.

By presuming the natives had no humanity, the Spaniards utterly abandoned theirs.

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Native cultures understood ancestry as matrilineal: family and clan identity proceeded along the female line, through mothers and daughters, rather than fathers and sons.

One single building, Pueblo Bonito, stretched over two acres and rose five stories.

Cahokia experienced what one archeologist has called a “big bang” around the year 1050 that included “a virtually instantaneous and pervasive shift in all things political, social, and ideological.”4