All continents are created equal?

      Part 1. Some facts and questions to ask.

 

The purpose of this posting is to discuss how the regions of Earth, where you live, affect you and the following generations of your ancestors. Before we start discussion, we should agree on definition of Civilization. As usual, our definition is just preference of our way of life. So Civilization is the big cities, complicated rules and hierarchies, money and central government. We will follow this description without giving a ‘good’ or ‘bad’ mark. Using it we can say, that in Ancient World all civilizations had only two centers: one is in the Middle East and around Mediterranean Sea and another around China and India. The first question is why for many thousand years there were no any other centers of civilization while human being had been living almost everywhere else? Another question is about the issue of expansion. While any civilization in the first center tries to capture more space and dominate over other countries, the all in the second one – were very limited in their borders. What caused the difference between them?

Now let’s talk about modern – last two thousand years – history. Why Europe and countries closed to Mediterranean Sea still took huge portion of all excitements? Again we are talking about explorations, wars, creation of Empires and loosing them. One known exception is Genghis Khan (spelling from Wikipedia). But otherwise – we see the same pattern. So what caused most of the people in Africa, Australia and America live the same lifes for many thousands years without smallest changes?Australia is the most original (literally) continent. I am using this term not in the ‘uniqueness’, but in ‘all apliances are original’ sense. The are no changes even in flora and fauna for all those years. Do you think that this fact has any importance for the future society? And finally about big cities. Why they are not in ten, twenty or more miles away?All explanation about conveniency of the place does not tell the complete story. One example – according to history Dutch bought island Manhattan very cheap, but sellers sold something that not belong to them anyway. I almost don’t have any doubts that it happened very close to the place that now known as Wall Street. Do you think that one of the greatest financial centers in the world coincidently started from trade very profitable for both sides? Or may be this place naturally good for business.