How is John James
Audubon's work related to
westward expansion?

Audubon was working at a time of industrialization and intense westward expansion in the United States, two factors which motivated the impulse to document American wildlife before it was displaced or driven extinct by humans.

Explanation:

the mongolian invasion of china and central asia resulted in a disruption of the silk road as the chinese garrisons lost support from the chinese kingdoms which fell under the mongols. however, as the mongols established a formal dynasty in china, the successors of genghis khan restored the garrisons along the silk road allowing the safe travel caravans again.

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