The Vedas<span> are a collection of hymns and other religious texts composed in India between about 1500 and 1000 BCE.
</span>The Rig Veda is a collection of Vedic Sanskrit hymns.<span>
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<span>The Sama Veda is the Veda of melodies and chants.
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<span>The Atharva Veda is the "knowledge storehouse of atharvāṇas, the procedures for everyday life".</span><span>
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Expanded the welfare state
This depends on your definition of "friendly". Although there was plenty of animosity in the years after the war, Americans and British maintained a fairly cordial relationship because it was in the best interest of both countries to trade with one another. However tensions over land disputes and the British taking American sailors eventually led to the War of 1812.
They adopted Christianity because it was the same religion as they're European masters at the time.
