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The Crusades Exploration Witch CraftReformation MercantilismManorialism

The Middle AgesEmily Miller, Elizabeth Stehn, Thara Galbreth

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During the Crusades, Muslims had captured Jerusalem, which was holy to both them and the Christians and was shared by both groups. The Christians definitely wanted the land back, so they launched the Crusades, which was a series of wars to take back Jerusalem. The Muslim Turks were too powerful, and the Christians were defeated. This led to more European awareness beyond their borders and accelerated economic change. For the Muslims, they were able to keep possession of Jerusalem.

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To be an explorer, you would need to be brave, resourceful, and driven. As an explorer, you are traveling into an unknown land. You would have to be brave, to even consider going to place that no one has gone before. You would also need to be resourceful, because after a long voyage, you may not have many, if any, supplies left, so you would have to be able to work with what the earth has. When you explore, you face many hardships, so you have to be driven because it would be easy to give up and lose hope.

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There are many different circumstances concerning why someone would have leave their homes and go to a new world in the name of their new region. One circumstance could be that they would want to start a new region where everyone has the same values and believes in the same way of life. Now the people would be able to spread the word of the beginning of this new region and they could also offer others to come back to live in this new world. Another circumstance could be they did not feel safe in the place they were living in and now they want to move to different region in which there are enforced rules to make it a safer region for everyone.

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In 1692, several girls and young women in Salem, Massachusetts, claimed that the devil had taken control of them. They also accused 3 townspeople of being witches. Trials were held to determine if the accused townspeople were really witches. This resulted in Salem Witch Trials. The Massachusetts authorities ordered 20 men and women to be executed. Some historians believed that the witch trials reflected colonists fears about the political changes that were taking place at that time. During this time the accused felt that under the assumption that anyone who denied the existence of witches or defended the accused must be one of them, and were brought to trial.

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European manors and southern plantations had many differences. Plantation life created a society with class divisions. A few were on top, with land holdings. The contrast between rich and poor was greater in the South than in the other English colonies, because of the labor system necessary for it’s survival. While, the fortunate few who lived in European manors, with hundreds of servants and slaves at their beck and call. Most plantation owners took an active part in operations of the business. They were also very similar, as they both grew crops to better the lives of others.

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Mercantilism had many effects on the Native Americans. One of the negative effects it had was that the Native Americans were converted into slaves or bonded labor, making them work hard and long hours everyday with minimum wages. With independence and economic freedom gone, the Native Americans became economically weak. Mercantilism also cut off trade with others.

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