The Crusades is a possible answer. They paved the way for much cultural transmission. Trading can be another possible answer.
From where American colonies? 1800s? ♤●£\¥□
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The Iroquois sought to expand their territory and take control of the role of middleman in the fur trade between the French and the tribes of the west.
Religion was important because people wanted to have a reason for the changing of the seasons, even an answer to why the world was created. And even why we were created to answer the question of do we have a purpose or do we just exist? It drove society apart by making people pick sides of which religion is the right or even true religion.