Because it supplies the country with water
<span>It made the Russian peasants even less satisfied with the Tsar, who they now felt was causing them to starve, freeze, and hear disappointing news about the invariable incompetence of their army. For some reason, a few decades later, they celebrated the Red Army in WWII, which consisted mostly of dead people.</span>
Assuming you're referring to a political context, the Ancient Greeks practiced a system of "direct democracy," in which each eligible citizen voted directly on all issues facing the state. This is different than a representative democracy, as it exists in the United States.
<span>War Hawks south and west both want war to gain more land
the native americans were just sitting there on the land. they then moved west</span>
