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Answer: There were interest in classical antiquity; a rise in humanist philosophy, human worth, and individual dignity.
Explanation:
I don't know how to explain good but here I go. So in the Renaissance there were lots of interests in classical antiquity and human worth.
The building of New England towns and cities around a common helped the colonies by creating a diverse economy for numerous reasons. If towns and cities were built around a common, more people from different areas would be acquiring goods from other regions. This opened doors for trading and selling items, which happened a lot during this time. Trading different goods and items from different areas helped people spread culture and diversity. More people were able to get things they wouldn't have been able to before because of shipping ports where they lived. Along with items being easier to obtain, they made profit by selling goods to other countries, like Europe.
The <em>Salem witch trials</em> were a series of prosecutions of people accused of witchcraft in colonial Massachusetts between 1692 and 1693. The episode is one of Colonial America's most notorious cases of mass hysteria. The exact cause of this <em>hysteria</em> is unknown but there were probably a number of causes such as: conversion disorder, epilepsy, ergot poisining, encephalitis, Lyme disease, unusually cold weather, factionalism, socio-economic hardships, family rivalries and fraud. Also, in seventeenth century Massachusetts, people often feared that the Devil was constantly trying to find ways to infiltrate and destroy Christians and their communities.
New England had been settled by religious refugees seeking to build a pure, Bible-based society, They lived closely with the sense of the supernatural. This society was Puritan, God fearing, theocratic which means that rulers act in the name of God, in other words, this society was religious extremist.