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400 years ago America consisted of a few colonies, financed by private investments, whose inhabitants were mainly religious minorities.
The experiment was both a religious and an economic one: to develop a colony, in the other side of the world, where a religious, homogeneous minoroty could develop an economy, mostly self-sustaining, but also with the goal of trading with the local inhabitants.
Egyptians associated death with the west and buried their pharaohs on the Nile's west bank. Egyptians preferred to stay on the east bank of the Nile at night, because they believed the spirits of the dead lived on the west bank. Osiris was the god of the afterlife.
