<span>Gained freedom, became wealthy land owners in LA due to the fact most Californians opposed slavery</span>
Here is the answer. Go to this website and write it down. He wrote it because it was Common Sense.
Here : https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/library/books/common-sense-thomas-paine/
The Battle of Gaugamela, in which Alexander the Great defeated Darius III of Persia in 331 BC, took place approximately 100 kilometers (or 62 mi) west of Erbil, Iraq.
Because they wanted religious freedom from the British government