<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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Strengthen The Catholic Church’s political and religious power
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Two options are correct here:
- They were fleeing from religious persecution.
- They wanted more economic opportunity.
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Since the foundation of the first English colony in the New World, people who decide to emigrate to the Unites States have been often leaving religious persecution at home, or they left because they wanted to live their lives according to religious rules not accepted by mainstream practices of their time. The other powerful motive for emigration to the USA is search for economic opportunities not available in the home country, or some material motives such as escaping poverty, famine or lack of farming lands.
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The "one-state solution" refers to a resolution of the Israeli–Palestinian conflict through the creation of a unitary, federal or confederate Israeli-Palestinian state, which would encompass all of the present territory of Israel, the West Bank including East Jerusalem, and possibly the Gaza Strip and Golan Heights.
