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Originally Posted by Shauk
it's always sobering to remember that there is a world south of the equator... I find it kind of odd that the majority of "civilized" nations lie north of the equator now that I think about it.
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Some suggest it has to do with resources, especially agricultural. The only places where large, domesticable beasts of burden exist naturally (horses, cows) is in the north. Many key crops also originated in the north - Australia, for instance, has nary a single good domestic crop, so its no wonder the aborigines remained as hunter-gatherers.