He saw a cross then swore to become christian if he won the battle.
In reference, <span>The Encyclopædia Britannica defines "political machine" as, "in U.S. politics, a party organization, headed by a single boss or small autocratic group, that commands enough votes to maintain political and administrative control of a city, county, or state".</span>
<span>SO: It's purpose primarily serves to gain and maintain political and administrative control of city/county/state, none the less the population.</span>
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For millennia, ethnic and religious hatred drove refugee migrations. The Korean War (1950–53), the Hungarian Revolutionary (1956), the Cuban Revolutionary (1959), and the Chinese conquest of Tibet (1959) all led in the departure of over a million refugees throughout the 1950s.
B. Started to explore history though the perspectives of many different groups.