"The Enlightenment encouraged rational thought over religious thought. As such, the Enlightenment served to create a social and political shift within the colonies from societies based strongly and almost solely in religion to societies that coupled aspects of Enlightenment thoughts with religion. For example, the early creation of town halls..."
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In simple words, The Jews became monotheists — they trusted inside and praised only one deity. This sticks out for scholars, since monotheism was exceedingly rare in the middle ages. Many ancient cultures were polytheism — they claimed and worshipped many gods.
Monotheism seems to be the religion of one divine entity. The background of monotheism seems to be the past of human civilizations adjusting their values to a evolving environment, mostly from polytheism towards henotheism once again to monotheism.
America needed new markets for its goods, not a source of raw material for industries.
The initial goal of the Grand Convention in 1778 was to "<span>revise the Articles of Confederation", since they had proven to be too weak to allow the government to pay back its debt or put down rebellions. </span>
The coast of Maine is rugged and rocky. I've been there myself.
Also, shouldn't this be a geography question?
