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"This orientation of the axes has had a huge effect on human history," he said. "The result is that crops and livestock domesticated in one part of Eurasia quickly spread to the rest of that continent."
He said that in Eurasia, migration of domesticated animals and crops was easy because the climate and conditions are relatively the same across most of the continent. The Americas, by contrast, have dramatically different climates from north to south, making migration, and thus diversification, difficult.
"This orientation of the axes has had a huge effect on human history," he said. "The result is that crops and livestock domesticated in one part of Eurasia quickly spread to the rest of that continent."
Europe's nation-states are, after all, a comparatively recent phenomenon: The continent had been an unruly smorgasbord of tiny kingdoms and fiefdoms before the emerging urban manufacturing economy of the 18th and 19th centuries began drawing them together into the nation states we know today. The modern economy required...
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