The section thriving communites is maily about the

The determinants

Explanation:

Determinants is a group of factors that become the main cause of a certain situation.  For thriving communities, the determinants could be things such as taking risk to open a business, high education, staying away from Drugs, etc.

Information that provided by the government regarding thriving communities tend to focus on the list of actions and conditions that an already established members had in the past.  (For example, the government often used successful local business owners and cover the story on how they achieve their success)

The purpose of this focus is to motivate the rest of the community to start adopting as much as determinants into their life and contributed to the advancement of the community

a historian is attempting to study how the puritans affected society in new england

it broke up the ottoman empire (just a small fact) and the turkish leaders lost many soldiers.