Identify the reasons why our friends’ assessments of our personalities are sometimes more accurate than our own.

Explanation:

1. We all love to justify our actions to make us feel better about ourselves that makes us have blind spots about some aspects of our personality that we don't like to look into.

2. Sometimes we are so engrossed with other people's lifestyle that we miss out or choose to ignore bad aspect of our personality.

Blind spots about ourselves

Failure in noticing our behavior

Explanation:

1.) We often most times have a blind spot about some aspects of our personality because we want to feel good about ourselves

2.) We spend most times evaluating other people that we fail to recognize or observe how we are behaving.

"the importance of the japanese economy and security is far greater than that of the asian values"

the factors that the economies of the muslim empires prosper were:

1- land trade routes-located between three continents  

2- sea trade routes

trade contributed to the spread of muslim empires, and with that islamic culture led to a growing feeling of internationalism resulted in the transfer of technology, science, and other cultural forms.