Well for starters early americans were very christian and didnt put up with any bad things take the salem witch trials for example
He told them they too could have a mustache as cool as his
It would be important because the ways we are using now are not very affective
1. malaria 2. rivers had terrible waterfalls..too dangerous...until the steam engine was invented it was incredibly dangerous 3. deserts....they didn't know how to travel through the deserts and find an oasis which made it very difficult to travel through
