How might ideas from foreign lands have influence people living in the cities along the trade routes?

Foreign influence in trade routes might have influenced things like religion and beliefs of people living along those routes. For exemple, the Buhdhism spread from China to Korea and Japan, and Islamic religion moved from the Middle East to West Africa and Asia. Religion influences in the way a person lives their lives, how they think, behave, eat and even dress.

one of the major compromises in the constitutional convention was between the small states and big states. the small states wanted each state to have the same number of representatives in congress. the big states wanted representation based on population.

biological/genetic factors means they were born or predisposed to have something. nothing can really change it, and you can't really do much to "fix" it. it isn't something learned

these are the biological factors:

adrian is relatively tall and he is on the basketball team

(adrian can't ever stop being tall or force himself to be tall. likely one or both of his parents are tall as well and they passed on the tall gene. he probably does basketball because he is tall)

the rest are environmental/cultural factors. these are things that are taught to us. for example, cynthia wasn't born saving pocket money, her family most likely taught her this (environmental factor)

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