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It was significant because it was the largest city in Egypt for more than two thousand years, not to mention being the capital for about half the time. The city made major profit from overland connection between the Mediterranean Sea and the Red Sea.
The purpose was to reduce the growth rate of China
It strained the resources of Russia while trying to go to war on Afghanistan. When the US sent in troops, Russia was running out of supplies and ended nowhere but with fewer supplies. The only reason USSR would invade Afghanistan is for terrotorial dominance but that didnt really happen. Invading Afganistan helped destroy USSR
During the ensuing decades, the abolitionist movement grew in Northern states, and Congress regulated the expansion of slavery as new states were admitted to the Union. Britain banned the importation of African slaves in its colonies in 1807 and abolished slavery in the British Empire in 1833.
I might not be right but it was that the colonies should break from Britain and form a new government elected by the common people, basically Britain should break connections with the King