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WeedleTLiar on scored.co
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I feel it's a number of factors, not unlike how many things need to be just right about our solar system for life to be possible.
Why didn't super civilizations arise in the Carribean and SE Asia, but they did in the Mediteranean? Vietnam is much more like Rome, geographically than central China, but that's not where Asian civilization was based.
Why weren't there European-level societies in NA or Russia, if it's a matter of being cold?
If it's a matter of trade, why was Japan so (locally) powerful when it was so insular?
Heck, why did not great power arise anywhere in the Southern hemisphere?
The Mayans, Aztecs and even more so their predecessors were pretty big. Their downfall was that the Aztecs somehow got into control and terrorized every other local tribe, which made it easy for us to shatter them. Had we come in contact with SA a few hundred years prior we would have met an empire spanning half the continent.
Why didn't super civilizations arise in the Carribean and SE Asia, but they did in the Mediteranean? Vietnam is much more like Rome, geographically than central China, but that's not where Asian civilization was based.
Why weren't there European-level societies in NA or Russia, if it's a matter of being cold?
If it's a matter of trade, why was Japan so (locally) powerful when it was so insular?
Heck, why did not great power arise anywhere in the Southern hemisphere?