Religious Settlement

Examples of Religious Settlement in the following topics:

• New Jersey

  • The Dutch concentrated their settlement in the seventeenth century along the banks of the North River and the Upper New York Bay.
  • The settlement grew slowly, impeded by mismanagement.
  • There was no such religious freedom under the British Church of England.
  • The early settlements in West Jersey were Salem and Burlington.
  • Since the area's settlement, New Jersey has been characterized by ethnic and religious diversity.

• English Colonies

  • Practical considerations (such as commercial enterprise, overpopulation, and the desire for religious freedom) played their parts.
  • The main waves of settlement came in the 17th century.
  • The Massachusetts settlement spawned other Puritan colonies in New England, including the New Haven, Saybrook, and Connecticut colonies.
  • The first attempted English settlement south of Virginia was the Province of Carolina.
  • Eventually, however, the Lords combined their remaining capital and financed a settlement mission to the area.

• The Coming of the English

  • In 1578, he reached the shores of Greenland and made an unsuccessful attempt at founding a settlement in Frobisher Bay.
  • Proprietors were appointed to found and govern settlements under mercantile charters granted to joint stock companies.
  • Soon, there was a rapid increase of English colonial activity, driven by the pursuit of new land, trade, and religious freedom.
  • The Northern Plymouth settlement in Maine faltered and was abandoned.
  • However, the London Virginia Company created the first successful English overseas settlements at Jamestown in 1607.

• Timeline

  • Much of religious prehistory and the chronology of religious art history is subject to ongoing debates due to the nature of evidence.
  • The timeline of religion, and religious art, is a chronological catalog of important and noteworthy religious events, including the worship of deities, from prehistoric to modern times.
  • Much of religious prehistory and the chronology of religious art history is therefore subject to ongoing debates.
  • 7500 - 5700 BCE: The settlements of Catalhoyuk develop as the likely spiritual center of Anatolia.
  • 313 CE: The Edict of Milan decrees religious toleration in the Roman empire.

• Cities of the Indus Valley Civilization

  • In total, more than 1,052 cities and settlements have been found, mainly in the general region of the Indus River and its tributaries.
  • The quality of urban planning suggests efficient municipal governments that placed a high priority on hygiene or religious ritual.
  • The first is that there was a single state encompassing all the communities of the civilization, given the similarity in artifacts, the evidence of planned settlements, the standardized ratio of brick size, and the apparent establishment of settlements near sources of raw material.
  • Sokhta Koh, a Harappan coastal settlement near Pasni, Pakistan, is depicted in a computer reconstruction.

• Conclusion: Patterns of British Settlement in the Colonies

  • By 1750, however, over a million British migrants and African slaves had established a near-continuous zone of settlement on the Atlantic coast from Maine to Georgia.
  • Anglo-American colonists considered themselves part of the British Empire in all ways—politically, militarily, religiously (as Protestants), intellectually, and racially.

• The Massachusetts Bay Colony

  • Although its governors were elected, the electorate was limited to freemen, who had been examined for their religious views and formally admitted to their church.
  • As a consequence, the colonial leadership exhibited intolerance to other religious views, including Anglican, Quaker, and Baptist theologies.
  • Hutchinson's major offense was her claim of direct religious revelation, a type of spiritual experience that negated the role of ministers.
  • The original settlements were along the Connecticut River at Hartford, Windsor, and Wethersfield.
  • This map illustrates the early settlements in eastern Massachusetts, including the Massachusetts Bay Colony.

• Plymouth

  • Settled largely by waves of Puritan families in the 1630s, New England had a religious orientation from the start.
  • In the church’s view, Puritans represented a national security threat because their demands for cultural, social, and religious reforms undermined the king’s authority.
  • Thousands of Puritans left their English homes not to establish a land of religious freedom, but to practice their own religion without persecution.
  • Unlike other Puritans, they insisted on a complete separation from the Church of England and had first migrated to the Dutch Republic seeking religious freedom.
  • However, the settlement survived, and the successful voyage of the Mayflower led to the great Puritan migration of the 1630s.

• Quaker Liberty

  • The Charter of Privileges extended religious freedom to all monotheists, and government was initially open to all Christians.
  • Pennsylvania embraced freedom of religion and welcomed religious and political refugees, including German immigrants, to the Pennsylvania Dutch Country frontier.
  • German (or "Deitsch") religious and political refugees prospered on the fertile soil and spirit of cultural creativeness in the Pennsylvania Dutch Country hinterlands.
  • Among the first groups to settle were the Mennonites, who founded Germantown in 1683; and the Amish, who established the Northkill Amish Settlement in 1740. 1751 was an auspicious year for the colony.
  • George Fox was the founder of the Religious Society of Friends, or Quakers

• Etruscan Artifacts

  • Historians have no literature or original Etruscan religious or philosophical texts on which to base knowledge of their civilization, so much of what is known is derived from grave goods and tomb findings.
  • Historians have no literature or original Etruscan religious or philosophical texts on which to base knowledge of their civilization, so much of what is known is derived from grave goods and tomb findings.
  • Although many Etruscan cities were later assimilated by Italic, Celtic, or Roman ethnic groups, the Etruscan names and inscriptions that survive within the ruins provide historic evidence as to the range of settlements the Etruscans constructed.
  • Most Etruscan script that does survive are fragments of religious and funeral texts.