1. EXPLAINING EFFECTS How did technological advances change society?
2. IDENTIFYING EFFECTS How did television help spread American culture?
3. UNDERSTANDING CONTEXT What made rock 'n' roll part of the new culture of the 1950S?

well the fact it is basically a peninsula allowed trade to come from many places, thus allowing cultural diffusion to take place. india has seasonal monsoons that merchants travel back and forth from india using the monsoons wind patterns

a phrase from a poem by ralph waldo emerson about the battle of lexington and concord. emerson's words read, “here once the embattled farmers stood / and fired the shot heard round the world.”