It can either bring people together into a new fused culture, or it can diffuse them. If various people exist of various cultures and a new empire rises then the leader has to accept all the people into his empire. This means that the cultures all exist and since they all have to behave according to what the emperor says, the cultures often mix and create somewhat of a mixed culture.If the empire separates people then it leads to diffusion because new aspects of cultures develop independently.
At the time Paine stated common sense, most pioneers believed themselves to be oppressed Britons. Paine, on a fundamental level, changed the tenor of homesteaders' contention with the crown when he composed the accompanying: "Europe, and not England, is the parent nation of America."
Paine proceeded to serve in the U.S. Armed force and to work for the Committee of Foreign Affairs before coming back to Europe in 1787. Back in England, he kept composing handouts on revolution support.
Passengers and future inventors benefited from Robert Fulton's invention of the steamboat because passengers took a steamboat from New York City to Albany.