The main reason according them was to spread Christianity. This was the goal that they emphasized very strongly.
It has been said there were actually three major reasons summarized as "Gold, God and Glory "
Gold meant that one goal of Spanish colonization was to find gold or otherwise get economic benefit from the colonies.
God meant a goal to spread Christianity.
Glory meant a goal that both individual explorers and their country of origin wanted to gain glory and power.
Answer:
Correct answer is:
the defeat of the Athenian fleet by Sparta
the death of Pericles and thousands of others from a plague
Explanation:
First option is correct as in a famous battle of Aegospotami Spartan leader Lisandro totally destroyed Athenian navy.
Third option is also correct as during the siege that was started by Sparta, Athenians retreated to the city, which was overcrowded. Diseases were spreading, and among the people who died was Pericles.
Second option is not correct as Assyrian Empire did not existed at the time.
Last option is not correct as most of Acropolis was destroyed in 17th Century during the war between Ottomans and Venetians.
Me kidding
There were three reasons why Civil War broke out in Russia in 1918.
The first reason was that there was bound to be a challenge to the Bolsheviks, who had seized power by a surprise coup d’état. After 1918, their political opponents tried to reverse it. The Bolsheviks had many enemies. One group who wanted to destroy the Bolsheviks were the Social Revolutionaries. At first, they had supported the November Revolution. elections had been held in November 1917 for a new government – the Assembly – in which the Bolsheviks had won 175 seats and the Social Revolutionaries 370 seats. However, when it met in 1918, Lenin used the Red Guards to close the Assembly, and killed anybody who objected. The Social Revolutionaries fought back by attacking the Bolshevik government. The Bolsheviks were also opposed by the Mensheviks (who had controlled the Provisional Government, and who they had toppled from control of the Soviets in September), and by the Tsarists (who wanted to rescue Nicholas II and put him back on the throne). Lenin made peace with Germany (the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk, in which Russia had lost much of Russia’s best agricultural and industrial land to Germany, including Ukraine, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania) and the former army officers were angry about this. Also, the Bolshevik government had taken land from the Tsar and the nobles and given it to the peasants, and the civil war was supported by those landlords who had lost their land. All these enemies of the Bolsheviks co-operated to try to bring down the Bolshevik government.
A second cause of the Civil War was the Czech Legion. These were some Czech prisoners of war being taken across Russia who in 1918 mutinied, took control of the Trans-Siberian Railway, and attacked towards Moscow.
Finally, these groups within Russia were helped by the Great Powers, angry that Russia had dropped out of the First World War. They were afraid because the Bolsheviks believed in World Revolution – the Bolsheviks set up the Comintern, led by Zinoviev, which said it would cause communist revolutions all over the world. Consequently, the Allies sent armies to destroy the Bolsheviks – British, American and French armies attacked from Archangel, Ukraine, and Vladivostock.
