Each belief system has a story of how the world was created and human life came to be. In many of these “creation myths,” a god or gods shape, manipulative, or in some way interact with a pre-existing darkness or chaos to create order.
Within Judeo-Christian beliefs, the first book of the Hebrew Bible, the Book of Genesis, describes not one, but two distinct accounts of how God created the earth, its inhabitants and mankind. This article explores the purpose of each creation story and later compares and contrasts the Genesis creation stories with an earlier Babylonian creation myth, the Enuma Elish, which dates from about 1900–1600 BCE.
The Revolution would have significant effects on the lives of slaves and free blacks as well as the slavery itself. It also affected Native Americans by opening up western settlement and creating governments hostile to their territorial claims.
