Cutting themselves as a part of a rutual was not a use
Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka was a landmark 1954 Supreme Court case in which the justices ruled unanimously that racial segregation of children in public schools was unconstitutional.
In Syria thousands of people were killed in 2011 so the leader could stay in power.
Brinkmanship. Pressuring the other country, or pushing them to the brink of war.
I think Mr. Bradford paints a rather rosy picture that is perhaps only a bit true. I suspect life was hard and the new country life quite strange. It took a strong forbearance for the women especially to adapt to the varying climates, crude living quarters, and usually harder work than in England. The Indians reportedly did welcome the strangers at first but did in time become leery of these new people - some lied to the Indians and did not deserve their welcome, so there were clashes in time. I do not think the early colonies were very successful. Later colonists learned from the mistakes of the first.
