Be sure that your answer is correct before answering this. it's for a test that's very important the purpose of sparks’ expedition into present-day oklahoma and other southwestern land was to encourage positive relations with american indians and to a. establish borders between american and spanish territories b. search for gold and other precious metals c. incite discord between american indians and the spanish living in the territory d. trade fur with local american indians and spanish territorial residents

The correct option is D

The Red River expedition or Sparks expedition, or officially as an expedition to explore the Red River in 1806, was one of the first civil scientific expeditions sent to explore the southwestern United States. It was commissioned to: find the headwaters of the Red River as a possible commercial route to Santa Fe, then under Spanish control; get in touch with the native peoples to establish business relationships; collect data on flora, fauna and topography, and the map of the country and the river; and evaluate the land for future settlements. The Spaniards intercepted the expedition when it had traveled 990 km upriver, in what is now northeast Texas, and had to turn around before the game achieved all its objectives.

from thales, who is often considered the first western philosopher, to the stoics and skeptics, ancient greek philosophy opened the doors to a particular way of thinking that provided the roots for the western intellectual tradition. here, there is often an explicit preference for the life of reason and rational thought. we find proto-scientific explanations of the natural world in the milesian thinkers, and we hear democritus posit atoms—indivisible and invisible units—as the basic stuff of all matter. with socrates comes a sustained inquiry into ethical matters—an orientation towards human living and the best life for human beings. with plato comes one of the most creative and flexible ways of doing philosophy, which some have since attempted to imitate by writing philosophical dialogues covering topics still of interest today in ethics, political thought, metaphysics, and epistemology. plato’s student, aristotle, was one of the most prolific of ancient authors. he wrote treatises on each of these topics, as well as on the investigation of the natural world, including the composition of animals. the hellenists—epicurus, the cynics, the stoics, and the skeptics—developed schools or movements devoted to distinct philosophical lifestyles, each with reason at its foundation.

with this preference for reason came a critique of traditional ways of living, believing, and thinking, which sometimes caused political trouble for the philosophers themselves. xenophanes directly challenged the traditional anthropomorphic depiction of the gods, and socrates was put to death for allegedly inventing new gods and not believing in the gods mandated by the city of athens. after the fall of alexander the great, and because of aristotle’s ties with alexander and his court, aristotle escaped the same fate as socrates by fleeing athens. epicurus, like xenophanes, claimed that the mass of people is impious, since the people conceive of the gods as little more than superhumans, even though human characteristics cannot appropriately be ascribed to the gods. in short, not only did ancient greek philosophy pave the way for the western intellectual tradition, including modern science, but it also shook cultural foundations in its own time.

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