The superior environment makes it impossible to establish a strong civilization in the tropics. First of all, tropical natural beauty and rich natural resources, these excellent natural attributes, on the contrary, have developed the cowardly character of tropical people. In the works of many western political and philosophical thinkers, the mutual influence and relationship between geographical environment and human beings have been discussed many times. Finally, people draw a set of conclusions: the personality characteristics of people living in different latitudes are determined by their natural environment. The cold environment at high latitudes will make human beings stronger and more confident, while the hot environment at low latitudes will make human beings timid and timid.
Is this statement right or wrong? The answer may be yes. In the tropics, abundant rain and sunshine create an ideal place for agricultural development in the tropics. Cash crops such as coffee and rubber that many capitalists dream of can be harvested in the tropics without even doing anything. For example, a professor at Yale University's College of Forestry has studied and analyzed the fertility of tropical land and found that the yield per acre of tropical land is 2-3 times higher than that of temperate potatoes. It took England/kloc-0.00 years to produce oak barrels, and it took only 33 years to harvest them in tropical areas. It is this unique tropical property that keeps people living here alive? You can survive by opening your mouth? That day.
Nature gives free resources to the tropics, which makes the indigenous people living in the tropics form an enterprising and prosperous idea. Because of inexhaustible resources, there are many scattered indigenous tribes in the tropics. It is precisely because of the rich resources that there is no need for indigenous tribes to fight for resources. Although this saved the people in the tropics from severe war disasters, this lifestyle of being content with the status quo hindered the birth and spread of civilization and completely limited the possibility of a powerful empire. Natural resources make people in tropical areas have no fixed working hours, because the concept of enjoying benefits has long been ingrained in their minds, which makes it impossible for them to establish a civilized lifestyle in middle and high latitudes. The high temperature environment makes the disease rampant here. Secondly, the tropical region maintains a hot and high temperature environment all the year round, allowing pests, parasites and pathogens to ravage this land for many years. In addition, the sanitary conditions here are extremely poor, and the health and economic level of people in tropical countries are low. This deadly disease not only threatens human health and life, but also makes it difficult for tropical countries with backward civilization to establish a highly developed social form and provide sufficient population and economic conditions for the journey of a powerful empire.
In ancient times, disease? It has always been synonymous with death. Even in today's highly developed medicine, there are still many diseases that cannot be effectively controlled and cured, so the struggle between human beings and diseases has lasted for thousands of years. Later, with the rapid development of human society and the establishment of civilized society, the prevention and treatment of diseases and the development of medicine became the top priority of every country and era ruler. However, people in tropical areas have been facing a serious threat of disease.
The high temperature environment here provides a hotbed for the rapid propagation and spread of pests and pathogens that spread diseases. A Panamanian poet once said that the tropical breeze is full of poisonous malaria, because there are a large number of mosquitoes living in the tropical rain forest, and these mosquitoes flying with the wind will unconsciously bring fatal infectious diseases to human beings. This will greatly shorten the life span of tropical indigenous people who have not established civilized countries, engaged in lazy agricultural activities for a long time and have low physical function. In addition, people living in tropical areas have no health concept at all. They can eat without washing their hands, or even take a shower all year round. This kind of bad hygiene habit invisibly increases the mortality rate of tropical aborigines. The rapid death of population makes it difficult to establish a social form, let alone a national form, so there is no so-called powerful country in the tropical region, and only a few poor and backward small countries can be formed here.
Modern colonial history doomed this place to be a weak country. Finally, after the rise of the era of western great navigation, in the course of hundreds of years of historical development, the originally poor and backward tropical countries were not only in flames of war, but also completely reduced to colonial rule, making it extremely unlikely that tropical countries would become world powers. Before the start of the colonial war, even the natives in the tropics did not think that their unique natural advantages brought heavy aggression disasters to the human beings here. People living here have always lived a comfortable life with no worries about food and clothing, and tropical countries that lack social work have never had a strong civilization, which makes the tropical region a treasure place only suitable for human survival.
While the civilization in the tropical region lags behind the world, the colonists in high latitudes firmly controlled the global economy in the world war in order to rapidly develop the economies of various countries, and finally extended the tentacles of the war to the backward and closed tropical region. Those insatiable white colonists regarded the tropics as huge reserves of their own economic and industrial raw materials, and then they set off crazy colonial rule.
As a result, the indigenous people in the tropics became slaves that the colonists could trample on at will under the long guns and cannons of the western colonists. After centuries, these tropical countries have basically become colonies of western powers. Under the oppression and exploitation of colonialists, the economic development here has been lagging behind. The so-called superior natural and geographical conditions have become a dividend for western colonialists to pre-empt economic development, while tropical countries are difficult to prosper. This historical change has enabled tropical countries to stabilize their position as poor countries. No tropical power? The law is really hard to break.
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References:
Modern colonial history
Neglected tropical diseases: global impact and control countermeasures
Influence of geographical environment: Raphael-based man-land system