The earliest large cities in colonial North America were located on the northeastern coast. These cities include Boston, New York City and Philadelphia.
According to the Wikipedia, Saladin "was the first sultan of Egypt and Syria and the founder of the Ayyubid dynasty." He was a Sunni Muslim, "who led his military against the Crusader states in the Levant."
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It flows into the Gulf of St. Lawrence, which also flows into the North Atlantic Ocean. :)
New freedmen tended to be more poorer and less educated