Question

Find the concept of Manicheaism that influenced the way the Puritains in Plymouth and the Massachusetts Bay colonies saw the world and their role in it. consider the myths that Europeans held about the New World, such as the Empty Land, myth, how those ideas clashed with the indigenous people who already inhabited the continent. What are the key differences between the early colonies found in St. augustine, Santa Fe, Quebec, and Jamestown and those in New England? What are some of the most notable characteristics of the experiments in a new society that grew out of the migration of the Puritans?

Answer 1

In England. the Purtians were the religious groups , they wanted to chance the Church of England & make the Church more pure by removing the ceremony of music , also did not want to seperate from the Church like piligrims.Thus the group formed the New England Company , The king gave character ( a document that gives permission to do some thing & the permission to operate a colony) & made settlement along the Massachusetts Bay.

The first group of Puritans settlers were led by John Endecott & aslo started to begin settlement Salem, Massaachusetts & changed the name of the company to Massachusetts Bay Company Another group with 1000 puritans & 15 ships came for settlement & John Winthrop became the governer of Puritan colony & started building small villages around the main town. of Boston.

The puritane were allowed to make their own laws & the central space in the village was a meeting point (house) were they settled the problems of the community .Puritans made mandatory that every child to read Bible & parents to teach, to read , & write, made laws that every village with 50 families to have a school & in the school to teach- How to write , read & do arithmetic , these school will be run by the womens in their homes , These schools were called Dame schools.

The freedom of religion was not a law , but they came to America to practice their religion & did not allow settlers of the same religion who did not follow the way the Puritans liked.

The key differences between New England & the colonies were the extension of commercial revolution of Modern England, Puritans settlements were not only the extension of it . In many ways their model community resembled medieval village in settlement pattern , ties of religious obligations & the efforts made to regulate individual, social & economic behaviour . Earliest Massachusetts towns had selltements with preparing fields & common pasture lands for cattles , when pasteures were fenced in old England, John throp settled " the setting the price " in Massachusetts long after" FREEmarkets" that obliterated th practice in Old England.. Desired to live close together & desperse land according to the needs

To increase their population they sent their womens to New England & also to trade with , New England , they trade with England for timber , fish, fur , but their main goal was self sufficiency at family & village levels.they transformed huge lands to produce tobacoo& rice for market , while New England & middle Colony farmers were producing cereals & staples similar to what were grown in England & producing items for local trade.