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Summary: Similarities Of The New World
Similarities of the New World and Today’s World There has always been a need for humans to have order. When the pilgrims sailed over on the mayflower they made the first contract, mayflower compact, to make their settling life easier. These early settlers and creators of this great nation were just people trying to survive and enjoy life and they even dealt with the struggle to maintain peace and eventually dealing with war. When thinking of people in history, we tend to think of them as really dull characters who did something special to get acknowledged enough to be in our history books or we do not fully acknowledge that this is a person who lived their entire complex life. These early people of Early America were just ordinary people …show more content…
These early settlers made peace with the Indians at first from a combination of fear and from the help they received. The Indians were first an unknown being that the early settlers did not know if they could trust, “All the while the Indians came skulking about them, and would sometimes show themselves aloof off, but when any approached near them, they would run away; and once they stole away their tools…” (p.59). As a nation we have an alliance with some places that we know war could be tragic on either end. They gathered some trust with entertainment and gifts and decided to make a peace treaty, “With whom, after friendly entertainment and some gifts given him, they made a peace with him… (p.59). With our nation, we trade between other nations and that acts as our gifts to keep the peace. When the Indians attacked Lancaster with Mary Rowlandson in it, the scene she depicts is similar to one we would witness in a war zone. “…hearing the noise of some Guns, we look out; several Houses were burning, and the smoke ascending to Heaven.” (p.119). In every war movie, the entire scene is chaos, the houses do catch fire, there are guns, and smoke is everywhere. For those who live or have lived in a war zone this depiction can be very frightening for them. Peace tends to always start out the same, with fear then earned trust, and the beginning of war tends to look the same as well, with chaos that seems to be

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