Obviously the poor had no money, so the bosses of say New York would pay clueless immigrants to vote for them in elections to keep them in high city offices and to continue holding power.
Egyptians associated death with the west and buried their pharaohs on the Nile's west bank. Egyptians preferred to stay on the east bank of the Nile at night, because they believed the spirits of the dead lived on the west bank. Osiris was the god of the afterlife.
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ruling as rome's first emperor during the pax Romana
To deliver a letter to Japan telling them to sign a treaty.