Homework Help Forum: US HISTORY

Posted by kayla on Sunday, September 20, 2009 at 9:53pm.

what were the religion(s) of the colonies named new hampshire, rhode island, connecticut, new york, delaware, new jersey, pennslyvania, virginia, maryland, north and south carolina, and georgia when they werr first discovered?

• US HISTORY - Ms. Sue, Sunday, September 20, 2009 at 9:54pm

  Do you mean the religions practiced by the native Americans?

  
  

• US HISTORY - kayla, Sunday, September 20, 2009 at 10:00pm

  any body that first settled there

  
  

• US HISTORY - Ms. Sue, Sunday, September 20, 2009 at 10:05pm

  The first people to settle those areas were native Americans. "First, at the time of European contact, all but the simplest indigenous cultures in North America had developed coherent religious systems that included cosmologies—creation myths, transmitted orally from one generation to the next, which purported to explain how those societies had come into being. Second, most native peoples worshiped an all-powerful, all-knowing Creator or “Master Spirit” (a being that assumed a variety of forms and both genders). They also venerated or placated a host of lesser supernatural entities, including an evil god who dealt out disaster, suffering, and death. Third and finally, the members of most tribes believed in the immortality of the human soul and an afterlife, the main feature of which was the abundance of every good thing that made earthly life secure and pleasant." http://nationalhumanitiescenter.org/tserve/eighteen/ekeyinfo/natrel.htm The people who came later from Europe were Christians.

  
  

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