<span>To Lincoln the Union was perpetual and that once states were part of the Union they couldn't secede. I guess he must have overlooked the 10th Amendment. And, the Civil War wasn't about slavery no matter how often you're told that. The Civil War was fought to destroy the 9th and 10th Amendments to the Bill of Rights.</span>
The Jesuits, to paraphrase Star Trek, went boldly where no European had gone before.
The basic strategy of the Jesuits was to convert people who had never heard of Christianity. So, off they went into the world. Jesuits traveled throughout India and Japan and throughout Southeast Asia and Canada and converted along the way (with quite a bit of resistance from the locals).
Pre history i guess
<span>that's the period before written records</span>
Slavery<span> before </span>Islam<span>. </span>Slavery<span> was common in pre-</span>Islamic<span> times and accepted by many ancient legal systems and it continued </span>under Islam<span>. Although </span>Islam<span> is much credited for moderating the age-old </span>institution of slavery<span>, which was also accepted and endorsed by the other monotheistic religions. </span>