It's interesting to think how the geography of the earth could've shaped the anthroposphere and its history differently had humanity happened a few million years earlier.
30 million years ago the Mediterranean and Indian Oceans were directly connected, for example, but the Black Sea was landlocked. The Bosporus straight in Istanbul and the Isthmus of Suez in Egypt have been very significant historically and geopolitically— history would be very different in a world where these don't exist.
30 million years ago the Mediterranean and Indian Oceans were directly connected, for example, but the Black Sea was landlocked. The Bosporus straight in Istanbul and the Isthmus of Suez in Egypt have been very significant historically and geopolitically— history would be very different in a world where these don't exist.