Answer: To illustrate Japan's isolation in the 1800s.
Explanation: The outside source in this excerpt (the first few lines) clearly describes how while the rest of the world was dealing with monarchies, wars and developing new technologies like trains and wheels, Japan decided to be totally closed off from all of that, and they concentrated just in painting screens for 200 years.
I guess you could say its also like parental genetics except we have our own genes the way you move your hand is different then other peoples hand movement
Are u wanting moral questions from us??
<span>The transition word is 'but' it allows the reader to understand there is another part to the sentence. That there is a cause and effect to the sentence.</span>