According to the passage, why did the byzantines want belisarius to stake everything in a single battle against the goths?

"but when the corn-lands had no more grain and all the romans (byzantines) had come into an exceedingly evil plight, they surrounded belisarius and tried to compel him to stake everything on a single battle with the enemy (goths), promising that not one of the romans (byzantines) would be absent from the engagement."
—history of the wars, book vi, article iii

booker t. washington was an educator who established the tuskegee institute. washington argued that african americans should learn trades that would offer them the opportunity to be progressive citizens. instead of fighting against discrimination, washington argued that african americans should use their education and knowledge to become self-sufficient in american society and not in competition with white americans.

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