Compare And Contrast Culture And American Culture

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The Americas compared to Europe was the biggest difference England at this time is a land tightly coiled with energy, becoming literate, and running out of land. Only the nobles own land, and most people are peasants that work the land, but can't own their own land. While in the Americas it was plentiful the land wasn’t being depleted and they were with harmony with the land they cherished the things that the land bares for them. The culture system was the greatest difference the “church” the Roman Catholic Church and Catholic Monarchs were the rulers of the land they made thing and rules that were deem the norm for everyone to follow everything else was taboo, while in the Americans, the people from the Americans their cultural practices differ

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