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Explore together here the concept of Manicheaism that influenced the way the Puritans in Plymouth and the Massachusetts Bay Colonies saw the world and their role in it. Consider the myths that Europeans held about the New World, such as the "Empty Land" myth, and how those ideas clashed with the indigenous people who already inhabited the continent. What were the key differences between the early colonies founded in St. Augustine, Santa Fe, Quebec, and Jamestown and those in New England? What are some of the most notable characteristics of the experiments in a new society that grew out of the migration of the Puritans?

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The key differences between New England & the colonies were the extension of commercial revolution of Modern England, Puritans settlements were not only the extension of it. In many ways their model community resembled medieval village in settlement pattern, ties of religious obligations & the efforts made to regulate individual, social & economic behavior. Earliest Massachusetts towns had selt ements with preparing fields & common pasture lands for cattles when pasteures were fenced in old England, John throp settled " the setting the price " in Massachusetts long after" FREEmarkets" that obliterated thpractice in Old England.. Desired to live close together & disperse land according to the needs To increase their population they sent their women'sto New England & also to trade with. New England, they trade withEngland for timber. fish. fur, but their main goal was self sufficiency at family & village levels. They transformed huge lands to produce tobacco&rice for market, while New England & middle Colony farmers were producing cereals & staples similar to what were grown in England & producing items for local trade