I don't get the relationship here
【That was Central Standard Time. The qualification is significant. A century earlier, on April 15, 1865, Abraham Lincoln had died in the Tenth Street Washington house of William Peterson, a tailor, at 7:20 A.M., and though Eastern Standard Time as it is now understood was nearly four years old, no one observed the distinction. It would have been irrelevant. Men elsewhere lived in separate worlds then. Time and space had genuine meaning. By the time distant communities learned of the assassination and grasped its implications, local conditions and individual circumstances had altered, and they viewed the President's death with perspectives quite different from those of Washingtonians.】

what does "men elsewhere lived in separate worlds then" mean?

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I don't get the relationship here
【That was Central Standard Time. The qualification is significant. A century earlier, on April 15, 1865, Abraham Lincoln had died in the Tenth Street Washington house of William Peterson, a tailor, at 7:20 A.M., and though Eastern Standard Time as it is now understood was nearly four years old, no one observed the distinction. It would have been irrelevant. Men elsewhere lived in separate worlds then. Time and space had genuine meaning. By the time distant communities learned of the assassination and grasped its implications, local conditions and individual circumstances had altered, and they viewed the President's death with perspectives quite different from those of Washingtonians.】

what does "men elsewhere lived in separate worlds then" mean?

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In those times there was no mass communication or easy travel, so the people then that lived other places were separate from the others.  They had no way to communicate easily or travel, so there was little interaction between the separate people.

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I think that in this context, it is saying that people weren't as connected, people and news traveled slow, and it was as if they lived in unconnected worlds.

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The culture was so different then that it was almost as if they lived in a completely different world.

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