Originally posted by Nirvan Sagar:
Why is that all the developed nations belong to the northern hemisphere . Or let me rephrase that why is it that all countries that have a tropical climate still in the "developing country" list . Is it that the Brain works at optimum only in colder climates and a steamy climate induces lethargy. To all the people I have asked they just kept thinking.
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Originally posted by Ta Ri Ki Sun:
how many slave ships brought people from the northern hemisphere over to the southern for development?
while I have no doubt that a huge number of countries at some stage or another used slaves to develop, I'm sure even thumb sucking some numbers to answer my question will in fact answer your question to some degree.
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Originally posted by Jim Yingst:
Nirvan - you may be interested in the book Guns, Germs, and Steel by Jared Diamond. The author is concerned with this very question. (Well, he doesn't break it into North vs. South, but rather Europe and Asia vs. Africa, Oceania, and the Americas.) A summary of his thesis can be found in the first half of this article (followed by another writer's thoughts.) Give it a look, see what you think...
[ May 09, 2003: Message edited by: Jim Yingst ]
Originally posted by Ravi Varman:
I'm having trouble understanding where this thread is going. But wait - that must be because I'm down under. Not that many places further south from where I'm sitting.
Originally posted by Nirvan Sagar:
Well it does not really give me an answer because essentially it reposes the question why people down south where not smart enough to chain up people from up north.
Originally posted by Ta Ri Ki Sun:
"smarts" is not a requirement for ruthless, heartless and conniving actions, would you say that Hitler outsmarted the jews?
perhaps the "native americans" were outsmarted too? and they weren't even from "down south".
Also the Irish are not from the south, yet Britain exploits their oldest colony.
Originally posted by Ravi Varman:
Not that many places further south from where I'm sitting.
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Originally posted by Ravi Varman:
Then how come the first civlizations all happened to take off in warmer climates ? Mesopotamia, Egypt,India, Greece, etc ?
Perhaps climate doesn't have anything to do with it, just the natural cycle of civilisations ascending & descending ?
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Originally posted by Ravi Varman:
Then how come the first civlizations all happened to take off in warmer climates ? Mesopotamia, Egypt,India, Greece, etc ?
Perhaps climate doesn't have anything to do with it, just the natural cycle of civilisations ascending & descending ?
Originally posted by Ravi Varman:
I'm not convinced about the ice age. It didn't stop China from developing relatively early.
You would think that if civilisations developed based on when humans arrived, then China would have been the last.
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