what types of people would have been pilgrims and what were their reasons for going?
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i can't give you the answer to the first part because i forgot...lol...but to the second..Pilgrims went to the Americas so they could have the freedom to practice their religion..they weren't allowed in their country..(i think it was forbidden..not sure)
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I believe they would come up with some sort of religion involving pagan dieties for them to worship similar to what ancient cultures have done. Mayans, Egyptians, Aztecs, ancient Chinese, etc.
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When Moses came down from Mount Sinai, he saw that the people had become impatient, and they were worshipping false idols with pagan practices.  He was so angry that he asked God to destroy the believers.  This isn't what happened.\n\nMoses was not allowed to enter the Promised Land, because of his anger.  The people could not enter the Promised Land either, since they had worshipped false gods. Consequently, they wandered in the Wilderness of Sinai, until they died of natural causes.\nOnly their children were allowed to enter the Promised Land, since they had not worshipped false idols.
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It's a long list:\nEgyptians\nAssyrians\nBabylonians\nPersians\nRomans\nRoman Catholic leaders in Spain(inquisition)\nRussians  (early 20th century)\nHitler's regime\n\nsome of these were only because they were jews and in the earlier circumstances they were just "in the way" of conquering nations so to speak.
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good question, when you get the answer, please share. I think the first Thanksgiving they probably had wild turkey, and deer and duck. God bless****
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It was for colonization.  People were wanting to move farther into the country and they were mostly farmers.
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any pilgrims in europe?\n\nOf course not dumbass
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The Pilgrims founded Plymouth Colony.
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Thanksgiving was instituted by the pilgrim who came over on the Mayflower.\nHistorytelevison has an article  on it, but they apparently have myths associated with it. I didn't read it all, but it came up when I "yahooed" thanksgiving and found the enclosed reference below.
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Most of my ancestors came here from Switzerland.They came here because they were being persecuted in their country because of their religion.One of my ancestors actually had his tongue cut out because he was preaching a religion not allowed.They were Mennonites.
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Pilgrim Background \n\nTHE BIBLE FROM LATIN TO ENGLISH \n\nUntil the latter part of the sixteenth century, the only Bibles available were printed in Latin. After the Reformation began the Geneva Bible was published in English. For the first time the common men were able to read the Scriptures for themselves. The Geneva Bible is the version that would have been most familiar to the older generation of Pilgrims. At the beginning of the seventeenth century, King James authorized another translation of the Bible into English, which still bears his name [The King James Version]. Until these English versions came into being, the common man was not able to read or understand the Scriptures. It was necessary for the ministers and church officials to tell the worshippers what was in the Bible and interpret the Scriptures. As the English translations became more readily available, the people were able to read the Scriptures for themselves, and controversies began to arise concerning the interpretation of many passages in the Bible. Other controversies arose concerning the rituals of the church service. \n\nTHE STATE CHURCH \n\nAt the time the Pilgrim Fathers were living in England there was only one church approved by the English rulers. Everyone was required to attend that church - and ONLY that church - every week. If the English ruler were Protestant, all people of the realm were required to follow the Protestant beliefs and attend those church services; if the ruler were Catholic, everyone in the kingdom was required to practice the Catholic faith and rituals. All religion in the kingdom was strictly dictated by the government. This is what we call a "State Church." \n\nThe reigning ruler appointed the archbishop of his or her choice and every church in the kingdom was under the direct orders of the ruler and the archbishop. There was no freedom to choose what a person believed or how he could worship. \n\nAnyone who objected to the beliefs of the state church or the forms of the church services could be arrested, questioned and thrown into prison. If they refused to give up their personal beliefs, they could be tortured in an effort to make them agree with the state church. If they still refused to give up their convictions after torture, they could be executed. Many people were imprisoned, tortured and put to death. Those who were executed for their religious beliefs died painful deaths. Many were hanged and quartered, some were burned at the stake, while others were crushed to death under heavy weights. \n\nThere were two major groups of believers who disagreed with the beliefs and practices of the Church of England. One group wanted to stay in the church, but hoped to change its forms of worship: This group was called "Puritan" because they wanted to "purify" the church. The other group did not believe the state church could be changed: This group was called "Separatist" because they wanted to separate completely from the Church of England. \n\nAt the beginning of the 1600s, a group of Separatists began to gather at Scrooby in the northeastern county of Nottingham. Scrooby was located on the main post road which ran between Scotland and London. When Queen Elizabeth I died in 1603 and James VI of Scotland was to become James I of England, he traveled the post road on his way to be crowned. \n\nJames I was a Protestant and the Separatists were hopeful he would be more tolerant of differing religious views. It was not long, however, before the Separatists learned that differing religious views would not be allowed under the new king. \n\nSEPARATISTS (PILGRIMS) \n\nOne group was called the Separatists because they demanded a complete separation from the Church of England. They wanted to worship in a very simple manner without all of the ritual and symbols which were used in the Anglican Church. In their study of the Bible they had decided the original church in New Testament times had been a s
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he was also called pilgrim pope. he made more foriegn trips ( over 100) than all prevous popes put together. ex. 1st to go to U.K. to the Queen.
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Maybe you need a clearer idea of what a pilgrim is in English, then you can come up with the Chinese phrase yourself.\n\nA pilgrim is someone who travels in foreign countries.  Often there is a religious reason for the travel, to go to a holy place or to collect a holy object.  The name for this kind of trip with a religious purpose is "pilgrimage".  Here are some examples:\n\nXuan Zang was a pilgrim who traveled from China to India to collect Buddhist scrolls, during the Tang dynasty.  The story of Xuan Zang's pilgrimage to India is the basis for the book "Journey to the West" (Xi You Ji).\n\nAll Muslims must make a pilgrimage to Mecca at least once in their lives.\n\nIn the US, the word Pilgrim, with a capital "P" means something special.  It is talking about people from England who emigrated to North America to set up a society in the English colony of Massachusetts where they could practice their own religion.  They were some of the first white people to settle in North America, arriving in Plymouth, Massachusetts in 1620 on a ship called the Mayflower.  The US holiday called Thanksgiving is supposed to re-create a big feast where the white Pilgrims and the (red) Indians sat down and ate together at harvest time.
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The Pilgrims did have a feast in 1621, after their first harvest, and it is this feast which people often refer to as "The First Thanksgiving". This feast was not repeated.Nevertheless, the 1621 feast has become a model that we think of for our own Thanksgiving celebration and we do know something of the truth about it.\nThe feast went on for three days , included ninety "Indians", and food was plentiful. In addition, to the venison provided by the Indians, there was enough wild fowl to supply the village for a week. The fowl would have included ducks, geese, turkeys and even swans.\n\n\nIt is now a time to remember the Pilgrims and what they went through. A time to be tankful for all we have, our family and friends, for many things, we all have our own list.
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According to more recent research1 there seems to have been two movements of people in 1212 in France and Germany. The similarities of the two allowed later chroniclers to lump them together as a single tale.\n\nIn the first movement Nicholas, a German shepherd, led a group across the Alps and into Italy in the early spring of 1212. About 7,000 arrived in Genoa in late August. However, their plans didn't bear fruit when the waters failed to part as promised and the band broke up. Some left for home, others may have gone to Rome, while still others may have traveled down the Rhone to Marseille where they were probably sold into slavery. Few returned home and none reached the Holy Land.\n\nThe second movement was led by a "shepherd boy"2 named Stephen de Cloyes near the village of Châteaudun who claimed in June that he bore a letter for the king of France from Jesus. Attracting a crowd of over 30,000 he went to Saint-Denis where he was seen to work miracles. On the orders of Philip II, on the advice of the University of Paris, the crowd was sent home, and most of them went. None of the contemporary sources mentions plans of the crowd to go to Jerusalem.\nThe Children's Crusade, by Gustav Dore\nEnlarge\nThe Children's Crusade, by Gustav Dore\n\nLater chroniclers embellished these events. Recent research suggests the participants were not children, at least not the very young. In the early 1200s, bands of wandering poor started cropping up throughout Europe. These were people displaced by economic changes at the time which forced many poor peasants in northern France and Germany to sell their land. These bands were referred to as pueri (Latin for "boys") in a condescending manner, in much the same way that people from rural areas in the United States are called "country boys."\n\nIn 1212, a young French puer named Stephen and a German puer named Nicholas separately began claiming that they had each had similar visions of Jesus. This resulted in these bands of roving poor being united into a religious protest movement which transformed this forced wandering into a religious journey. The pueri marched, following the Cross and associating themselves with Jesus's biblical journey. This, however, was not a prelude to a holy war.\n\nThirty years later, chroniclers read the accounts of these processions and translated pueri as "children" without understanding the usage. So, the Children's Crusade was born. The resulting story illustrates how ingrained the concept of Crusading was in the people of that time— the chroniclers assumed that the pueri must have been Crusaders, in their innocence returning to the foundations of crusading characteristic of Peter the Hermit, and meeting the same sort of tragic fate.
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The Puritans, those radical forefathers who left England to escape tyrannical religion.\n\nThe Spaniards were more interested in the gold and silver and basically slaughtered the Indians, or killed them by spreading disease.
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Go to the library and take out a children's book on "The First Thanksgiving" between the indians and the pilgrims.\n\nIt's the way they first made friends!!!!   The indians invited the english to their bountiful "harvest".