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With the Middle Ages in its prime years, Europe remained a fairly unadventurous civilization from 500-1500 A.D. With subsistence farming prevailing and commerce being limited, merchants keep their affairs fairly domestic, failing to consider their international capabilities. But as Europe gradually became more mercantilistic and religious discontent raged, Europeans were motivated to migrate to America and colonize lands in the New World. Despite the fact that the regions of New England and Chesapeake were …

…leads to Pennsylvania becoming very cosmopolitan and tolerant, as well as democratic. Because of different motives for colonization, different relationships with natives, different conditions of the lands, as well as a multitude of other factors, the two regions of New England and Early Chesapeake, though founded by English settlers, developed into two distinctively diverse societies. Because of this, they grew separately and developed at their own rates, evolving into what we knew them to be.