2006-08-29 16:48:18 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Education & Reference ➔ Homework Help
Great Brittain was lucky to have the body of water, the english channel, between its land and France. Otherwise, Brittain would have been swarmmed with nazies.
2006-08-29 16:52:07 · answer #1 · answered by shkabaj 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Jared Diamond has a book, Guns Germs and Steel, that states
Eurasia was able to dominate the world throught the luck of the land, beginning with the civilizations of the fertile crescent, how it was basically a luck of the land that helped the europeans to dominate over many others.
Diamond also explains how geography shaped human migration, not simply by making travel difficult (particularly by latitude), but by how climates affect where domesticable animals can easily travel and where crops can ideally grow easily due to the sun.
2006-08-29 19:38:05 · answer #2 · answered by Sue S 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Britain was unable to defeat Afghanistan during the Anglo-Afghan war due to the rugged nature of the terrain. Had Britain been able to establish a stronghold in Afghanistan, probably history would have taken a different direction. No 9/11 maybe!!
2006-08-29 17:12:47 · answer #3 · answered by vajra 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Napoleon's demise in Russia is a great one.
Others off the top of my head:
Searching for Osama Bin Laden
Exploration of the Americas, and colonization thereof
Spain and Portugal's location on the Atlantic leading toward them being oceangoing powers
France's centralized location
Both Germany and Japan fought in WWII over their need for expansion and lack of natural resources.
The importance of the Panama and Suez Canals
Many, many others.
2006-08-29 17:41:39 · answer #4 · answered by SpisterMooner 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2016-10-01 01:54:15 · answer #5 · answered by mclaurin 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Katrina
2006-08-29 17:23:12 · answer #6 · answered by pobept 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
the great volcanos erruption could be cosidered great historicat events..the Santorini who destroed the minoic civilization, Monserrrat, Mount St. Pierre, Mauna Kea?
The first man's land on the moon?
these are the fisrt that came first on my mind....
2006-08-29 16:53:40 · answer #7 · answered by Pearl 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Napoleons march across russia failed because of the harsh conditions of the siberian winter.
2006-08-29 16:52:43 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
the battle of Thermopylae
2006-08-29 17:58:12 · answer #9 · answered by John D 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋