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 * People tend to settle in places with more natural resources
 * __Guns, Germs and Steel__ teaches us that groups that are geographically lucky end up being much more successful than those that are geographically unlucky
 * Geography affects migration, culture, politics, economics, even religion
 * Mesopotamia - geographically unlucky, freq/ random flooding and freq invasions = gods are mean
 * Egypt - geographically lucky, more predictable flooding and hard to invade = gods are nice