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Does that apply to South America and Mexico ?

• ochoseis 4y ago
  Sapiens and Guns, Germs and Steel discuss this some. The US also benefits greatly from its geography. Good farming land that stretches through a consistent latitude allows you to use similar techniques and crops across. The same is not true for more mountainous and longitudinally-oriented areas. I believe this applies more to continents than individual countries, and South America is definitely narrower and taller than the US.
  • boc 4y ago
    The Accidental Superpower is a good book that goes deeper on this topic.
  • deaddodo 4y ago
    Guns, Germs and Steel is heavily discredited among the history and anthropology fields. Sapiens is pretty decent, though the first half is better than the second.
• jjk166 4y ago
  The lack of military invasions has certainly been a boon, but not sufficient to overcome the issues left over by Spanish/Portuguese style colonialism which created land owning aristocracies and rampant corruption. Argentina, Brazil, and Chile really all ought to be superpowers and Venezuela could have been richer than Saudi Arabia.
• MR4D 4y ago
  Yes on the oceans, but having either jungle and/or a mountain range bifurcating a country tends to make it expensive to integrate into a cohesive country, so the benefits become more limited.