Why do you think there is a question mark at
the end of the first verse?

Several different things make up a culture like, how the people worship, their form of government, geography, and trade. religion is one of the most important things to a culture, it defines peoples life. their different beliefs form into festivities and events that merge with their culture. people that practice hinduism see cows as gods, so no doubt they would celebrate cows, and these celebrations would definitely merge with their culture. those that are buddhist live life trying to reach a certain level of peace, so no doubt would they change things in their life in order to correspond with their religion.

Lodg'd with me useless, though my soul more bent

One of the things that allowed native americans in mexico to settle cities larger than those in areas to the north was "b. the development of cities that were built by an earlier civilizations," since mexico had been the home of some of the world's most advanced civilizations before the columbian invasion