When merchants traveled between towns selling goods, they would have items from different places and cultures. The buyers of these merchants would be fascinated with the new items they had never seen before of different cultures, and so they would buy those items and spread them around until everybody knew about and became interested in other cultures. The cycle continued, causing more and more people to appreciate other cultures.
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When making foreign trading policies, things like tariffs decide how many things will be imported from where. If you have a most favored nation, you give them lower tariffs and thus motivate them to trade more with you and you help their economy. There can also be an opposite when you make tariffs higher for someone in order to reduce their importing.
The <span>American Revolution was a radical break with the past </span>in the sense that no colony had ever overthrown its colonizing power before, and independence was considered almost impossible. It preserved the status quo in that the Americans actually adopted a form of government that was very similar to the British.
