Comments by "Diana Pennepacker" (@dianapennepacker6854) on "How Geography Made The US Ridiculously OP" video.

Well you had huge native population that were warring with each other for centuries. Then we brought our myriad of diseases that they had no immunity to completely wiped them out. Our Livestock and the pathogens they carry is what mainly wiped native Americans out. Wars and practices just sped up the decline. At least that's what I've read. I always wondered why the transmission of disease didn't go both ways. America also came around when centralized nations and NOT kingdoms among the age of sail and then industry. Perfect time to get a head start.
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@kes1709 Didn't realize there was a word but yeah I knew that. I still would've thought there would've been other pathogens though that could be devastating. I guess syphilis is one but contested. More curious is how many diseases were already there.
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@kes1709 Yeah I know what syphillius is and although it is horrible it's nothing compared to something like small pox.
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All and I mean all empires fall from within. Outside forces may instigate and widen the fracture but eventually they die from a conflict and the corpse is broken up into different factions who try to consolidate power. Empires fall, the crows await. America just needs like a few hundred more million people to truly shine.
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I feel America. Centralized nations over fuedal societies. First the renaiassance. Age of exploration, age of sail, and then the industrial age all on a huge continent with nigh untapped resources? Then add in all the turmoil in Europe which means millions of immigrants looking to expand? We were in the right place at the right time. Then our leaders consolidating power as Europe continued to battle each other in more profitable colonies. America has a lot to owe to the way Britain's colonies worked. We weren't just used or abused as badly as those in South America. If you look at colonization and the differences between how the powers ran their colonies you'd see Britain was much different in America/Australia then say Spain and Portugal who effects are still felt today in South America. Hell the East Indie trading company alone was a nation without a border and changed the world. Not sure how the Dutch operated.
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@christopherwhull Population density is an issue and the fact Americans are stubborn. Yeah a high speed rail sounds great but wait it is in MY neighborhood?! A train station here?! You want to buy my shit little house/land worth 100,000$?! Well I want five times that as I have memo-ReeEees heeREEEEE!!! I wonder how much freight is transported through our river systems and canals. Are there any huge main rivers that go from the Mississippi to the Rockies that people use for large amounts of freight? I just realized I know a few. Also I just realized almost all rivers flow south.
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