During the seventh century, during the very beginning of Islam, Muslims migrated to North Africa. They also pushed into territories that eventually became the Republic of Sudan, Chad, Mali, and several others. Many of the African cultures had ancient artistic traditions in mask-making for indigeno...
Throughout the 1670s and 1680s, New England clergy wrote sermons which drew directly from the Book of Jeremiah. This Old Testament book is one in which the prophet Jeremiah scolds the Hebrews for losing religious dedication and in turn, God's favor. Contemporary scholars refer to these sermons...
They said we were soft, that we would not fight, that we could not win. We are not a warlike nation. We do not go to war for gain or for territory; we go to war for principles, and we produce young men like these. I think I told every one of them that I would rather have ...