<span>Earthquakes and volcanoes. Earthquakes shape the earth because when the plates shift together it causes an earthquake when a volcanoes happen lava comes out and it cools and creates more land.
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He might have done it to save his people and so that they could fight back after his death and send the people that he sent home during the war to defeat the Persians after his death.
