In 1844, Samuel Morse and Alfred Vail sent the first telegraph message between Washington, D. C., and Baltimore, Maryland. • In 1861, Western Union laid the first transcontinental telegraph line. • In 1866, the first permanent telegraph cable was laid across the Atlantic Ocean. What impact did this innovation have on daily life?

People who traded with other people across the ocean could communicate much quicker.

Explanation

It became a major method of long-distance communication for many years

Explanation:

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