Static societies can not benefit from cultural blending because they are not open to change. Such societies also are not open to new ideas.
It is beleived that the Arab pennisula was a sphere of scientific inventions. This got lost when the societies a new phase of closing to themselves. This has led to some scholars postulating that the arab pennisular stopped developing when they stopped learning from others.
The Battle of Fort Sumter<span> was the first </span>battle<span> of the American Civil </span>War<span>. The intense Confederate artillery bombardment of Major Robert Anderson's small Union garrison in the unfinished </span>fort<span> in the harbor at Charleston, South Carolina, had been preceded by months of siege-like conditions.</span>
The 2nd Great Awakening helped Protestants, Baptists, and Methodists. Catholics were discriminated against because people thought that they would listen to their Church's leadership over their countries.