>But it doesn't imply resources are more spread out No, but what the point of resources if you don't know how to use them? For example - paper. China had it fo

>But it doesn't imply resources are more spread out No, but what the point of resources if you don't know how to use them? For example - paper. China had it for more than a thousand of years before it reached Europe. Papermaking gave a great boost to our civilization, but imagine our world with papermaking just being introduced to the middle east.