King Philip’s War and Are the Puritans Selfish or Selfless?

King Philips War
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1. What were the two most significant factors that caused King Philips war?
King Philips war was a war between the American Indians inhabitants and the English inhabitants and their allies. The war also referred to as Metacomet the chief who had attained an English name of Philip due to the friendly relationship between his father and the Mayflower Pilgrims. The war is said to be one of the deadliest between the Wampanoags and the English colonists. Although the desire by the colonists to acquire more and more land was not one of the leading causes of the bloody and violent war, It was not the immediate cause of the war. The immediate cause was the trial and the execution of the king’s men by the colonists. After that incident, the war was unstoppable with so many in...