Compare and contrast bathing traditions in western europe, japan, and sounthwest asia.

In Japan and Southwest Asia, bathing traditions revolved around bathhouses. A place where traditionally people came together communanly to bathe and share time. Whereas in the early times of Western Europe history bathing was not common due to economic weight of buying soap and heating water. In later times during the Renaissance era, similarly to Japan and Southwest Asia, bathhouses became a center for gathering with others to bathe and engage in dialogue.

- tobacco.

- "rolfe reacted to consumer demand by importing seed from the west indies and cultivating the plant in the jamestown colony. those tobacco seeds became the seeds of a huge economic empire.the tobacco economy rapidly began to shape the society and development of the colony. growing tobacco takes its toil on the soil."

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cultural/diplomatic relations. most medieval japanese   culture has chinese origins. writing, architecture etc.