It is important to find the perspective of studied cultures instead of making conclusions based on your current perspective.
Context requires a historian to think about the conditions, values, and norms of a time period in which an event occurs.
In the Body Ritual of the Nacirema, it would be easy to judge the behaviors of the group when coming from a 21st century, culture bias. However, upon realizing it is about America (it is spelled backwards), you can see how the behaviors can be explained when put into context.
The First Seminole War (1817–18) began over attempts by U.S. authorities to recapture runaway black slaves living among Seminole bands. Under General Andrew Jackson, U.S. military forces invaded the area, scattering the villagers, burning their towns, and seizing Spanish-held Pensacola and St. Marks.Jul 20, 1998
The word to fill the
blank space is "Writing".<span>
Complete sentence is as below:
In early Mediterranean civilizations, the development of an extensive
trade network and a bureaucracy that could manage record keeping was based on
writing.</span>
<span>Record keeping is as important in contemporary times as it was in ancient
times, a skill which has helped human civilization cross many barriers. </span>
The meaning of individualism is the moral attitude,
political viewpoint, philosophy, or societal viewpoint that highlights the ethical
worth of the person. But for Alexis de Tocqueville, individualism is the Americans
lived in social separation deprived of any bonds to company class association
or family.
There was a lack of jobs for European countries while the US had many job opportunities.
