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  2. 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.

  3. Euryalus - Wikipedia

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    Euryalus (or Agrolas), brother and fellow builder of Hyperbius the Athenian. [9] Euryalus was the name of a son of Euippe and Odysseus, who was mistakenly slain by his father for plotting against his father. [10] Euryalus, son of Naubolus, one of the Phaeacians encountered by Odysseus in the Odyssey. [11]

  4. 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 ...

  5. Colonial history of the United States - Wikipedia

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    Much of the architecture of the Middle Colonies reflects the diversity of its people. In Albany and New York City, a majority of the buildings were Dutch style with brick exteriors and high gables at each end, while many Dutch churches were octagonal. German and Welsh settlers in Pennsylvania used cut stone to build their houses, following the ...

  6. Partus sequitur ventrem - Wikipedia

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    Beginning in the Virginia royal colony in 1662, colonial governments incorporated the legal doctrine of partus sequitur ventrem into the laws of slavery, ruling that the children born in the colonies took the place or status of their mothers; therefore, children of enslaved mothers were born into slavery as chattel, regardless of the status of ...

  7. 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.

  8. Analysis of European colonialism and colonization - Wikipedia

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    One of the main clauses of the charter acknowledged the right of all people to choose their own government. [12] The document became the foundation for the United Nations and all of its components were integrated into the UN Charter, [13] giving the organization a mandate to pursue global decolonization. [citation needed]

  9. History of colonialism - Wikipedia

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    The Third Plague Pandemic started in China in the middle of the 19th century, spreading plague to all inhabited continents and killing 10 million people in India alone. [43] Despite persistent diseases and famines, however, the population of the Indian subcontinent , which stood at about 125 million in 1750, had reached 389 million by 1941.