The “old world” up to say 1000 AD was really a machine with 7 interlocking parts of approximately comparable size. But the interesting thing with this polar view is, it becomes clear why the steppe nomads were the connective tissue. They’re the hub region. Able to easily invade the 4 big civ cores nearby easily (China, India, near east, Eastern Europe). India was the best protected due to Himalayas.This really should be the map with which pre-1300 world history should be taught. North Africa looks interestingly marginal here, but due to the prehistoric migration out of East Africa it kinda has cantillon-effect explanatory importance. 

The rest of the world didn’t really get properly integrated till much later. SE Asia and NE Asia were weakly attached, Siberia was even more weakly attached. Arabia is basically hot Siberia. Funny they both have oil.

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$HUMAN tokens airdropped via Egypt by East Africa. They kept a large pool local though.

Wow. I’ve never seen someone use the Cantillon effect to explain cultural relevance. That’s great.