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  2. Nisus and Euryalus - Wikipedia

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    The games demonstrate behaviors that in the war to come will result in victory or defeat; in particular, the footrace in which Nisus and Euryalus compete prefigures their disastrous mission. [13] The five runners are, in the order in which they would have finished, Nisus, Salius, Euryalus, Elymus, and Diores. Nisus, however, slips in the blood ...

  3. Middle Colonies - Wikipedia

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    The Middle Colonies' political groups began as small groups with narrowly focused goals. These coalitions eventually grew into diverse and large political organizations, evolving especially during the French and Indian War. [19] The Middle Colonies were generally run by Royal or Proprietary Governors and elected Colonial Assemblies.

  4. Euryalus - Wikipedia

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    Euryalus, named on sixth and fifth century BC pottery as being one of the Giants who fought the Olympian gods in the Gigantomachy. [1] Euryalus, a suitor of Hippodamia who, like all the suitors before Pelops, was killed by Oenomaus. [2] Euryalus, one of the eight sons of Melas, who plotted against their uncle Oeneus and were slain by Tydeus. [3]

  5. Analysis of European colonialism and colonization - Wikipedia

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    Religion was one of the key parts of colony societies that were changed and manipulated. Ghana was one of the key countries that this impacted by British colonial rule. Jedwarb, Meier zu Selhausen, and Moradi [ 69 ] (2022) were huge believers that the introduction of Christianity was one of the main reasons that Ghana still struggles to balance ...

  6. European colonization of the Americas - Wikipedia

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    Dark Red = New England colonies. Bright Red = Middle Atlantic colonies. Red-brown = Southern colonies. Mainly due to discrimination, there was often a separation between English colonial communities and indigenous communities. The Europeans viewed the natives as savages who were not worthy of participating in what they considered civilized society.

  7. Colonial history of the United States - Wikipedia

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    It changed their rituals, their piety, and their self-awareness. The new style of sermons and the way that people practiced their faith breathed new life into religion in America. People became passionately and emotionally involved in their religion, rather than passively listening to intellectual discourse in a detached manner.

  8. Christianity and colonialism - Wikipedia

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    Christianity and colonialism are associated with each other by some due to the service of Christianity, in its various denominations (namely Protestantism, Catholicism and Orthodoxy), as the state religion of the historical European colonial powers, in which Christians likewise made up the majority. [1]

  9. Loyalist (American Revolution) - Wikipedia

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    The largest number of loyalists were found in the middle colonies: many tenant farmers of New York supported the king, for example, as did many of the Dutch in the colony and in New Jersey. The Germans in Pennsylvania tried to stay out of the Revolution, just as many Quakers did, and when that failed, clung to the familiar connection rather ...