Describe a way your own personal culture has changed through diffusion, assimilation, or appropriation. how have you learned new cultural habits?

We have to distinguish all three processes before you can apply your personal experience. Cultural diffusion is the process of one culture influencing another in a positive way by adopting or copying it. However, Cultural appropriation is a term for cultural diffusion that is seen as disrespectful or mocking and can be linked to racism. So, it has a negative connotation.  Cultural assimilation occurs when a minority enters into a dominate culture and assimilates in order to survive. It is a one way process in which dominant culture always wins. The American society is a good example of cultural assimilation of minority groups.

the conditions that made the byzantine empire vulnerable to attacks by the muslin turks were the sack of constantinople by western crusaders, the conquests of the sultanate of rum, presence of rival kingdoms and finally the set up of fiefdoms at the empire which were owned by the ghazis (turkish warriors).

answer; taking up arms to defend the nation;