To teach Native Americans about the Bible and Christianity
Marcus and Narcissa Whitman were among the early settlers of the West, pioneers of the Oregon Trail. Their missionary party, headed to Oregon in 1836, included also Henry and Eliza Spalding. The two wives were the first white women to cross the Rocky Mountains. Over time, the Whitmans' work in the West contributed more to white settlement in the region than it did to the betterment of the Native America peoples they sought to work with. The Whitmans and a dozen other white settlers were killed by some of the Cayuse people in 1847 in what became known as the Whitman massacre. The Spaldings were not among those killed in that event. Henry Spalding continued to work among native tribes in the West.
The Qin fled south when they were defeated by the Huns.
There was no '' west '' but people from the south considered it a northern problem. Because in 1812 in American '' west '' only reached as far as the Mississippi River
<span>"The population had gotten so big that hunger was everywhere. Excruciating hunger and starvation. It was followed by warfare."
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The development of farming was crucial to the formation of civilization since this allowed for there to be a surplus of food, which meant that people could devote themselves to other tasks and skills that are necessary for society to form.
