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What did John Smith write? What was its purpose?
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A Description of New England; Its purpose was to persuade people to go to the New World by portraying it as something it wasn't.
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Describe some of the things John Smith used to persuade the colonists.
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He used things like a great economy, the Indians were waiting to be converted, lots of farmland.
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What did William Bradford write? What was its purpose?
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Of Plymouth Plantation; its purpose was to bring people to the New World.
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Describe William Bradford's writing.
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Bradford wrote about how the voyage sucked, the starvation, the deadly winter, all of the woodland, and how the Inidians stole stuff.
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What did Edward Taylor write and what was the main idea?
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Huswifery; it compared peoples' faith to a spinning wheel.
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Describe the main idea in Edward Taylor's writing.
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He compared spindles to the Holy Spirit, the spool to our soul, the fulling mill to the sacraments, the dye to everyday actions, and the final presentation to getting into heaven.
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What did William Byrd write and what was the main idea of it?
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A Progress to the Mines; it described the life of Southern Aristocracy.
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Describe the main idea in William Byrd's writing.
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His friends have pet Deer, he has goose for dinner, he claims the coffee wasn't strong enough, everything was elegant, and he only picked ginseng from the middle stalk.
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Describe Jonathan Edward's The Beauty of the World.
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Everything in the world is beautiful because God made it; the world is harmonious with the Supremem being; spiritual beaty is much greater than natural beauty.
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