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The Sky Tree
The earth mother cuts down the SkyTree because her husband, the chief of Sky Land asks her for the tree’s healing fruit. The Sky Tree falls through a hole in the sky, she jumps in after it. Animals on the "water-covered" earth hurry to build an island upon Turtle’s back, where Aataentsic and the SkyTree come to rest. Then the Sky Tree takes root in the new earth. -
The Puritans Settle in New England
The Puritans Settled in New England on December 21, 1620. They came looking for religious freedom. They wanted to live better lives then had previously had. They valued self-reliance, hard work, and discipline which helped them build a new society in a vast and unfamiliar land. -
The Rise of Rationalism
People started to question divine right of monarchs in England, so a new movement called the Enlightenment began to spread. Out of that a philosophy developed called rationalism or the belief that human beings can arrive at truth by using reason. Rationalists felt God gave humanity reason to discover both scientific and spiritual truth, known as deism. -
Benjamin Franklin's Autobiography
Possibly the most famous piece of the time period. It is a memoir of his life, divided into four different parts, that breaks off and stops in 1775 and is left unfinished.
