What were Prince Maximillian's motivations for going on the expedition up the Missouri River? What was Karl Bodmer's job on the expedition and why did Prince Maximillian hire him?

Prince Maximilian was an enlightened man with a restless spirit. He devised expeditions of a scientific, botanical, zoological, ethnographic and anthropological nature.  

Johann Karl Bodmer was hired as an artist by Maximilian to accompany his expedition and record images of cities, rivers, towns, and villages he saw along the way, including the many Native American tribes along the Missouri River and in that region.

Bodmer was a Swiss printmaker, engraver, lithographer, zinc engraver, draftsman, painter, illustrator and hunter. He is known in the United States as a painter who captured the American West in the 19th century. He painted extremely precise works of its inhabitants and landscape. He accompanied the German explorer Prince Maximilian zu Wied-Neuwied from 1832 to 1834 on his expedition to the Missouri River.  

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an empire is a sovereign state functioning as an aggregate of nations or people that are ruled over by an emperor or another kind of monarch. the territory and population of an empire is commonly of greater extent than the one of a kingdom.[1]

an empire can be made solely of contiguous territories, such as the austro-hungarian empire or the russian empire, or of territories far remote from the homeland, such as a colonial empire. aside from the more formal usage, the word empire can also refer colloquially to a large-scale business enterprise (e.g. a transnational corporation), a political organisation controlled by a single individual (a political boss), or a group (political bosses).[2] the word empire is associated with such other words as imperialism, colonialism, and globalization. empire is often used to describe a displeasure to overpowering situations.[3]

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