Legislative, judicial, and executive branches
There are 8 elements for a group of people to be a religion:
1.) Cities/Towns
2.) Specialization of labor
3.) Education/Art
4.) Form of government
5.) Religion
6.) Writing
7.) Technology
8.) Trade
This was taken directly from my notes. Hope it helped.
Pop culture can be influenced in many ways. For instance we have many different varieties of restaurants, dances, and music. Take the cha-cha for an Example. It came from the West Indies, and is one of the most popular categories of ballroom dance today. Same with the Tango.
Rain forests are most likely to be found closest to the equator
Because it offers the historian an objective snapshot of the public sentiment of the time, which the cartoonist (should be) distilling for their readers, according to their feelings, for mass appeal. I say objective as it is usually very easy to decipher their subjective viewpoint according to the publication. The value of this is that it is tapping into how the masses 'feel' rather than how subjective facts can be built to form historical opinion. It becomes especially valuable prior to this century, when public sentiment is harder to garner as we were less technologically advanced.
