What geographic feature made early americans consider isolationist policies? having deserts on the mexican border having fertile agricultural land on the atlantic coast having the rocky and appalachian mountains as shields having a large ocean on each side of the country

the influence of daoism, buddhism, and legalism on chinese culture. unlike confucianism, daoism looked to nature rather than human beings as the source of morality. according to laozi, human society has to conform to the dao (the way), or the essential unifying element of all that is. some interpret dao as nature.