How Geography Gave the US Power | Wendover Productions
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How Geography Gave the US Power | Wendover Productions

B2Upper-intermediateOctober 8, 202614 min
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This video was made possible by Squarespace. Build your professional web presence for 10% off by going to Squarespace.com slash Wendover. The United States and its entire history can be largely explained by its geography. Since its inception, the fundamental factor influencing and guiding the country's development

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is that it is far from everything else. The US is bounded to the east and west by ocean and to the north and south by friendly and militarily weak countries and this has meant that the US has almost never been threatened on the home front.

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Many suspect that this is why the US has such a defined government and political structure—because it had the time to develop the system while it wasn't worrying about potential invasion. But geography had a much deeper role in the formation of the United States that started back before the states were even united.

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