How Geography Made America The World Leader?
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- čas přidán 30. 07. 2024
- The unique geographical position of the United States of America has a lot to do with its superpower status than you might think. This video covers how geography can tell you a lot more information about an area than just different locations. Find out how oil, coal, minerals, fertile plains, farmland, coastline, climate, and more things made the US a superpower.
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Guns, Germs and Steel: tapthe.link/GunsGermsSteelBookD
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Chapters:
00:00 Introduction
00:20 Geography
01:39 Explaining things based on geography
04:41 How US became a superpower
06:05 Producing stuff/farming
07:00 Oil and gas
08:55 US & Power
09:15 Why white europeans took over America
11:40 Diseases
13:26 Geography is amazing
#futureiq #geopolitics
Dude where were you (for me) all these years, such nice explanations for reasons and concepts that too in pretty depth for some tipics. Really appreciate your work guys. Thanks a lot.
new fan of this informative channel
10:30 What happened to Navin's hand ✋ Where is his thumb 😳 ⁉️
I managed to get my thumb cut off when I was 9.
More details: twitter.com/NGKabra/status/1597457271516430338
-@Navin
US does not have the equivalent of caste , religion and language politics tearing it apart from within. Secondly few presidents ended expanding the country , and never gifted territory away to neighbouring countries in the name of harmony and bilateral relations, as a society Americans never hesitate to try something new , for example smartphone became a way of life pretty quickly when compared to others and finally they managed to get rid of colonizers quicker than others.
USA does have racism, even today. It does have class conficts. And USA for a long time was a colonial power, and during recolonization period it did let go of the Philippines and several other regions. India was born as a democracy and it also has border settlements. And losing some small pieces of land doesn't automatically prevent a country from becoming powerful. Japan has no natural resources, has small area, but still grew to world power. USA has also did border settlements with Canada and Mexico as any other country.
What is the history of shipping on Indian rivers?
Good question. Should look into this and do an episode on it.
-navin
Good question bro. The answer is simple , North part of India is still suffering from Islamic Phobia and South part of India is lacking unity among themselves . We have beautiful rivers flowing across India and currant Union of State government is showing interest in dividing the people than River Navigation.
Geography is one of the reasons. If you think that's the only reason then you dont know what you are talking about.
America had an influx of highly skilled Immigration during the world wars and a lot of them contributed significantly in setting up the country's institutions. Americans weren't experts in anything but they knew how to learn from the best minds.
Of course it is not the only reason. There are many many things that go into making something the way it is: but people usually forget that geography is a big contributor and reminding them of that is the point of this episode. -@Navin
It is already explained in the video that it (things like immigration) is more of a proximate reason.
I think the links are missing.
Why Portuguese in Brazil?
Thanks for pointing out. Added links in the description
Sorry about that @akilansundaram2181. This is fixed now and the description has all the links, including the one on why Brazil speaks Portoguese. (You'll need a twitter account to see it, though.)
Then why is Brazil not a super Power 🤔
The Amazon rainforest region is not suited for farming
-@Navin
6:50 US is the largest exporter of food? Then why are there food deserts in the US?
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Is this re uploaded video?
yes it is
Yes, there was an error in the previous video which we corrected and reuploaded. -@Navin
Why usa is a superpower :
1 . Unending supply of crude oil
2. Weak neighbours
3. Surrounded by water ( natural barrier against enemy)
God makes usa richer
Great Britain was a superpower before US. US adopted its culture, laws, politics, and improved upon them. Geography is nothing to do with power.
UK is rare case of colonial power which is unlikely to repeat. US on other hand blessed with huge land and natural resources.
@surajrshetty Inventions and innovations make countries superpowers. Natural resources are discovered. Sand is just sand before the invention of glass or silicon. Sunlight is not a resource until solar pannel is invented. American culture supports invention. Britain was a great inventor before that china, and India was before that.
UK lost its ways after becoming too rich. Venezuela is no 1 in oil reserves. Ultimate resource in the modern world.
Natural resources play a great role for a country. It was Californian gold rush of 1850s which led to California's birth and ultimately it became Silicon valley@@ajaykumar-premium