The European's were very interested fur
Salve narratives were mostly autobiographical in nature and gave an account of the person’s experience, their escape from slavery, and their lives after slavery.
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The Christians didn’t cooperate with the Ming and Qing, and thus had most of them executed in just a couple of years. The rest of the Ming and Qing scattered and haven’t recovered since
Freemasons were the members of the secret fraternal order of Free and Accepted Masons that is a worldwide secret society.
Many of the founding fathers were freemasons, like George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, Paul Revere, John Hancock, John Marshall. So nine of the 56 men that signed the Declaration of Independence were Masons and 13 of the 39 that signed the US Constitution were also masons.
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They were searching for land. Hoping to claim this wealth and territory for Spain and themselves
