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How did the context of Siddhartha Gautama's life years affect him?

Sakya, the tribe to which Siddhartha Gautama belonged. Located in the eastern part of ancient India, it was a city-state dependent on Cusara, close to today's place in Nepal, with a low status, and was later destroyed by the displaced king. The capital was located in the city of Kaviravi, which was subordinate to Kosala and worshiped the sun. The Sakya retained the divination rituals of the primitive religion, and the tribe made amulets from various stones. You can pray for blessings to dissolve evil spirits. 

Siddhartha Gautama received the traditional education of Brahminism as a teenager, and practiced both art of war and martial arts, and was a capable rider, archer and fencer. Legend has it that when he was 16 years old, Siddhartha Gautama drove a car on a trip to the southeast and west of the three gates of the road and met the elderly, the sick and the dead, and saw the phenomenon of those aging, thin and miserable, very sad and distressed.

Finally, he met a monk outside the north gate, and heard from him that monkhood could free him from birth, death, sickness and old age, and then he had the idea of monkhood. 29 years old (I say 19 years old), despite his father's many persuasions, he left his wife and children, gave up the royal life, and left the house for monkhood.

After leaving home, Sakyamuni first went to the outskirts of the royal city to learn meditation, and then practiced austerities alone in the woods along the Nirvana River, eating only one meal a day, and then one meal in seven days, wearing tree bark and sleeping on cow dung. After six years, his body became thin and withered, and he was still unable to find the way to liberation. He gave up his austerities and entered the Nirencham River to wash his body. After bathing, he received a shepherd's wife's offering of milk and rice, and regained his health. Afterward he crossed the Nirancham River and went to the Wakabara tree (i.e., the Bodhi tree) outside of Gaya, where he meditated and contemplated.

It is said that after seven days and seven nights, he finally realized that he had penetrated into the source of life's suffering, eliminated the root causes of old age, sickness, and death, and stopped worrying about greed, anger, and dementia from arising in his mind. This marked his realization of the Way and his becoming a Buddha. Buddha means the Buddha, meaning the one who realizes, the one who knows. This year Siddhartha Gautama was 35 years old.