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The King James Version (KJV), also the King James Bible (KJB) and the Authorized Version (AV), is an Early Modern English translation of the Christian Bible for the Church of England, which was commissioned in 1604 and published in 1611, by sponsorship of King James VI and I. [ d ][ e ] The 80 books of the King James Version include 39 books of ...
t. e. The Puritans were English Protestants in the 16th and 17th centuries who sought to rid the Church of England of what they considered to be Roman Catholic practices, maintaining that the Church of England had not been fully reformed and should become more Protestant. [ 1 ] Puritanism played a significant role in English and early American ...
I. Iberia (modern Spain and Portugal) [ 21 ][ 22 ][ 23 ] Illyricum (territories near the Adriatic from modern day Slovenia to Albania) [ 24 ] India [ 25 ] Israel. Italy (Italy generally [ 26 ] and the cities of Syracuse [ 27 ] and Rome specifically [ 28 ])
e. The reign of King James I of England (1603–1625) saw the continued rise of the Puritan movement in England, that began during reign of Queen Elizabeth (1558–1603), and the continued clash with the authorities of the Church of England. This eventually led to the further alienation of Anglicans and Puritans from one another in the 17th ...
Amerigo Vespucci. The naming of the Americas, or America, occurred shortly after Christopher Columbus 's death in 1506. The earliest known use of the name America dates to April 25, 1507, when it was applied to what is now known as South America. [ 1 ] It is generally accepted that the name derives from Amerigo Vespucci, the Italian explorer ...
Dominion theology is a reference to the King James Bible's rendering of Genesis 1:28 in which God grants humanity "dominion" over the Earth.. And God blessed them, and God said unto them, "Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth."
The Puritans, almost immediately after arriving in America in 1630, set up schools for their sons. They also set up what were called dame schools for their daughters and in other cases taught their daughters at home how to read. As a result, Americans were the most literate people in the world.
The personification was sometimes called Lady Columbia or Miss Columbia. Such an iconography usually personified America in the form of an Indian queen or Native American princess. [ 25 ] The image of the personified Columbia was never fixed, but she was most often presented as a woman between youth and middle age, wearing classically draped ...