Civil War in England

I found an interesting parallel between our civil war in America and the civil war that occurred in England from 1642-1649.  One of the main parallels that I could derive was the fierceness of people to protect their way of life.  Many of these battles were over what the people thought to be moral grounds.  As these individuals went to war they were destroying their own civilizations, devastating their own people.  Yet because it was so tough for them to come to a compromise on how to properly run and control their governing body (members of parliament, and the King) war inevitably erupts.  In America one of the key factors for the South was to hold onto their way of living.  Large plantations fueled by black slaves.  England suffered a very similar threat on moral obligation.  As the North began to push back on the South, southerners realized this to be a direct threat on their economy, and way of life.  As there is much more detail in both the English civil war, and the American civil war, one main similarity I found was how we are not too different from our cousins across the pond.