How are direct and indirect similar?

they can both be the cause of something to happen

april 18, 1775, hundreds of british troops marched from boston to nearby concord in order to seize an arms cache.a confrontation on the lexington town green started off the fighting, and soon the british were hastily retreating under intense fire.

on april 19, 1775, american militia gathered to stop a british company sent from boston to capture supplies allegedly amassed in lexington, massachusetts. the militia fled, and the british left after not finding the supplies.

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