Answer:
because it was 1849 when the peak of the gold rush was (when everyone started to go to California)
Land masses formed barriers and only 1 path allowed trade
Mao Zedong believed that peasants would make true revolutionaries because the peasantry force is comparable to intense wind and raging rain. It is increasing violence rapidly. No other force that can stop them. Their force will destroy all nets that bonded it and continue to their liberation. They will conceal underneath the militarism, imperialism, evilness, and corruption.
They were combined because the people there moved to the new world to get religious freedom. So their goverment and religion was combined.