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Historic cultures all around the world have been shaped by three essential factors:

  • climate
  • Natural Resources such as the availability of drinking water, shelter and food
  • population density

The Americas (North, Central and South) have such a wide variation in climates and natural resources that a very wide range of cultural groups developed. Natural resources are always dependent on climate, while population density depends on the available resources, so climate has to be the greatest factor.

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