Which of the following describes a major cultural shift that changed the american colonies during the 17th and 18th centuries? huge populations migrated away from urban centers toward rural areas. colonial governments established stricter religious political bodies. different colonial regions gradually developed more similar cultures. mercantilism emerged as the colonies' preferred economic system.

well the fact it is basically a peninsula allowed trade to come from many places, thus allowing cultural diffusion to take place. india has seasonal monsoons that merchants travel back and forth from india using the monsoons wind patterns

religion played a major role in the american revolution by offering a moral sanction for opposition to the british--an assurance to the average american that revolution was justified in the sight of god. the revolution strengthened millennialist strains in american.