They wanted multiple things such as land, wealth, religion, and their culture being spread.
They colonized multiple places and took over.
The Indus River is Pakistan’s primary water source.
James Wilson Marshall was an American carpenter and sawmill operator, who reported the finding of gold at Coloma on the American River in California on January 24, 1848, the impetus for the California Gold Rush
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