The Greeks set up colonies throughout the Mediterranean and the Black Sea. This included settlements in modern-day Italy, France, Spain, Turkey, and parts of North Africa.
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The U.S had access to vast natural resources is the answer hope that helps :)
Because they were a great source of wealth and of sugar
Well in the Fall of Rome the education was falling and the churches or Christians saved education from fading so wealthy like nobles or kings would have had a church in there area so they could spread or learn more about their religion so they were probrobly either suprised or influenced.