Laura is typical of many u. s. businesspeople. she feels the u. s. culture defines the model for the rest of the world, and that the "american way" of doing things is the best. laura is guilty of

I believe the answer is: Ethnocentricity.

ethnocentricity refers to the act of seeing our own culture as inherently superior compared to another culture. This often make people seeing the norms or tradition that exist in other culture by using our own as a standard. The more their culture deviate from ours, the more inferior we think their culture to be.

answer: there were new carvings etched into the back of the sculpture and each shoulder was turned into a symbol of the birdman.

mali had been a state inside of the ghanaian empire. after ghana fell because of invading forces and internal disputes, mali rose to greatness under the leadership of a legendary king named sundiata, the "lion king." the songhai empire, already weakened by internal political struggles, went into decline.