The bathing traditions across the world differ from one another, and there's always a good reason behind it.
Western Europe's bathing tradition is pretty much in the sense of avoiding the bathing as much as possible. People were going for months without bathing. The reason behind that were the diseases, such as the plague, and it was well known that the less hygienic someone is, the lesser the chances of getting a disease because the body will be more resistant.
In Japan, the bathing tradition was seen as a must, as the Japanese had in their culture that they should always be clean, smell nicely, but also it was an act of purifying. So the bathing in Japan, very often with nice smelling plants, was a common thing.
In Southeast Asia, people very bathing constantly, mostly in the rivers and lakes. The reason for that was neither beauty and prestige, nor threat of diseases, but it was practical. The region is hot, the humidity high, so people were and still are bathing multiple times during the day in order to cool off.
<span>Stephen Douglas' action in introducing the Kansas/Nebraska bill in 1845 was a great miscalculation. The purpose was thought to improve farmers' ability to acquire new farms. It was also thought to promote a reason to create a Northwestern Transcontinental Railroad.</span>
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During its period as an independent country, Texas attempted to expand south and west into what was then Mexico. “There was a whole series of expeditions and counter-expeditions and skirmishes and battles,” said Bob Brinkman, coordinator of the historical markers program at the Texas Historical Commission, a state agency. Even after joining the United States, Texas held on to the idea that it would take a large chunk of the Territory of New Mexico. But as part of the Compromise of 1850.
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<span>Trade was the key in developing Britain's global empire and dominance. It opened Britain up to lucrative new markets, though which it could sell its domestically produced value-added goods (especially after the beginning of the Industrial Revolution) while importing luxury and exotic goods to drive its wealthy population. Additionally, the importance of trade and the resulting need to secure trade routes drove Britain to develop the world's most powerful navy, which in term secured its global power during its era of dominance.</span>
