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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 lati

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.