It was important to them because they earned money and since they didn't pay their slaves, they even gained more money. When they started to outlaw slavery southern states refused to give their slaves freedom because they earned money.
Not sure if this answers your question, but in the fall of 1880, van Gogh moved to Brussels, Belgium, and decided to become an artist.
<span>In 1885, he started to work on what people consider his first masterpiece: "Potato Eaters."
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I would say the main charactersitic of arid climates like deserts from the selection is hot summers and cool winters because they usually are in a rain shadow so the skies are usually clear so clouds can't shield the ground from solar radiation and also at night and in the winter there is no cloud cover to insulate the environment so it gets cooler.