Unmarried women were allowed to claim homesteads.
Stones, sharp rocks, wood, & animal bones.
William Penn believed deeply in religious freedom and tolerance.
The most significant change on the territory of the Byzantine Empire after the Ottoman Turks invaded it, was the change of the religion and the influence of Constantinople as the seat of the Orthodox Christianity. The Ottoman Turks immediately implemented the Islam as a state religion, and they were not fond at all of the Christian faith, so now the situation changed totally, once the empire that promoted Christianity, now became a place for promotion of Islam in the southeastern part of Europe.
John Wesley and his younger brother both served as Anglican ministers in the 1700s. They are considered the founders of the Methodist denomination in 1730s. With the help of Wesley, Methodist leaders were involved with the most pressing issues in society at the time such as the abolition of slavery and reforms in the prison system.