Ian Maynes Professor D’Amario History 101 13 February 2013 The Ideal Christian Community Religion is such a controversial‚ intense‚ and spiritual subject and it is absolutely amazing how different the beliefs in just one single religion can be. John Winthrop‚ a Puritan Lawyer and one of the leaders of the Massachusetts Bay Colony‚ believes that religion should be forced by law. The English Protestant theologian Roger Williams believes the exact opposite which is obvious since
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¬In this essay‚ we will examine the contribution of Christianity in the lives of individual believers and their communities. This contribution will be assessed using the common characteristics of beliefs‚ sacred text and writings and ethics. Christianity is a religion based on the life and teachings of Jesus. Christians share a set of beliefs that are important to their faith‚ they believe that God created the universe‚ God is a single ruler‚ Jesus is the son of God‚ Jesus suffered and was crucified
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Europeans (The Untold History of Native American Slavery). The Native Americans who participated in the slave trade used it as a tactic for survival. The Indian slave trade aided the substantial decrease in the Native American populations following the arrival of the Europeans along with devastating epidemics (The Untold History of Native American Slavery). This endured much into the eighteenth century and then was replaced with African slavery. The Native American slave trade’s legacy still resonates
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Native Americans had no other option than assimilation. Today‚ we have the right to choose. Back in the days you had rights only if you were part of the elite society‚ in this case‚ a white person. White people were so hungry power that they did whatever they had to as to gain all the land that belonged to the Native Americans. They took advantage of the inocense of the Native Americans and achieved their goals. Whites wanted total control over the Native Americans‚ they forced them to assimilation
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Native Americans are the Same as Catholics? Surprisingly‚ Native American and Catholic religions have as much in common as they have in differences. Native Americans have been practicing their individual‚ but very similar religions for thousands of years. Yet‚ in a brief period of time‚ they lost much their traditional religious practices due to the aggressive Catholic administration and missionaries in their efforts to “reform”‚ modernize‚ and educate Native American populations and their
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We are who we are because of Native Americans; their history is critical for this generation to acknowledge and understand. Native Americans can teach us many things that are of great worth to us. When we learn about Native Americans‚ we can understand what values we should have‚ what to learn from the past‚ and who we are today as a country and as an individual. The stories from and of Native Americans can communicate values that are important for the students of this country to obtain. Everyone
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Europeans settle the America continent as their focus is the conversion of the natives into Europeans. The white population grow rapidly as deals is made. The westward movement push the Indian more distant from the Atlantic shore. As a result‚ the Indians land are no longer untouchable and the final invasion of Indians homeland begin with the Daves Act of 1887. There are many ways that the Europeans impact the Indians through changes. The Europeans settle in the Indian world change such as the living
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The Settlers and the Natives The Colonie’s relationship with the natives of the land that they colonied effected the way that the colonies evolve. From as early as the discovery of Roanoke in 1585 by Sir Walter Raleigh who captured two Native American back to England‚ bad blood had formed between the Chesapeake Colonies and the Native Americans. The New England Colonies had a very different relationship with the Natives‚ one which involed alliances and trade. Throughout history‚ these alliances
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prepared for the invaders. For many centuries the Aztec civilization revolved around a ideological‚ social‚ and political system in which expansion was the cornerstone. Expansion was the cornerstone of their whole civilization‚ because their religion requested that a large number of human sacrifices where to be made to the gods. To get the sacrifices the Aztec went to war with other tribes in Mexico to get these human sacrifices (Conrad & Demmest 47-49) . With each conquest more sacrifices
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the Native American Indians. They could not mutually agree‚ as they both wanted the best for themselves. The Native Americans were sceptical towards the whites and the whites on the other hand didn’t trust the Native Americans. Many of the white population were running out of room on the East Coast of America. As the US believed in the concept of “Manifest Destiny”‚ which consisted in filling the whole continent with loyal white Americans‚ this would inevitably lead to conflict‚ as the Native Americans
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