When people from different societies come in contact with each other, there is every possibility that there would be a diffusion of ideas, beliefs, structures, and other elements of their cultures. Sometimes, elements of a culture are assimilated by the host society. Diffusion in this instance is the movement of any aspects of culture from a region where it is widely accepted to a region where little about it is known.
The United States culture is dominantly Christian. The presence of a mosque is the diffusion of the Islamic religion to the predominantly Christian religion.
These contributions allowed humans to develop and function better in their daily lives; thus societies managed to make big leaps in their economic and political development, as well as cultural production and their religion, whilst simultaneously leaving a legacy in evolutionary history for future generations.
