Many european nations and america desired to expand their "spheres of influence" and control parts of China for their own 'empire', which enables the nations to get more resources and other 'exotic' things that they do not have in their native lands.
<em>Dura-Europos</em> was an ancient city located in the vicinity of village of <em>Salhiyé</em>, Syria, along the Euphrates river, close to the Iraq border.
Christian places needed to be discreet or secret around 240 A.D.; thus earlier congregations worshiped in private houses of wealthy members; some of those houses were converted into churches, and the house in <em>Dura-Europos</em> was one of those conversions.
So the purpose of the frescoes was to celebrate Christian worship secretly, and to illustrate the old testament writings, mostly for the illiterate people who couldn't read the sacred books, as a medium of what they called "<em>hope of new spiritual birth</em>".
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He traveled to the Americas for various reasons, one thing that Columbus did was in a way start the Columbian exchange where things such as food, plants, livestock, and diseases were spread into the Americas that were never there before.
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Well only very few soldiers actually died from chemical warfare when it was first introduced, but the experiacing it for the first time must've been terrifying because they has no clue of why they were feeling such pain or what was happening to them.
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