Read paragraph three (3) from the passage. what does the author express by including the phrases “muddy, churning waters” and “untamed land”?

Ibelieve the author is stressing the image that the landscape and area is in the wilderness, is natural, and potentially dangerous.

Dthat the mississippi was a wild and exciting place

Ongoing civil wars western roman empire finally collapsed476 c.e. romulus, the last of theroman  emperors in  the west, was overthrown by the germanic leader odoacer, who became the first barbarian to rule in rome. the order that the  roman empire  had brought towestern  europe for 1000 years was no more.