You can use fossils to study the old days or older versions of objects
I would not say we had a better advantages at all
There are diverse kinds of socialism. A purely socialist country would have an economic system based on collective ownership of resources, production, land, etc., by the workers. Communist countries usually have economic systems where the government owns all the means of production.
The Boston Tea Party was important because it showed the American colonies had grown tired of arbitrary taxation by the British. When the East Indian company was allowed to sell tea directly to America, the British instead the the tax be paid on it. This culminated in the dumping of tea cargoes into Boston Harbor.