How Geography Made America The World Leader?

The unique geographical position of the United States of America has a lot to do with its superpower status than you might think. This video covers how geography can tell you a lot more information about an area than just different locations. Find out how oil, coal, minerals, fertile plains, farmland, coastline, climate, and more things made the US a superpower. Books mentioned in the video: Guns, Germs and Steel: https://tapthe.link/GunsGermsSteelBookD More videos for you: Drones are Changing Geopolitics & Warfare: https://youtu.be/MrZL04ELnk8 Jodhabai did WHAT to India: https://youtu.be/NPCB7mIDvaU Why India is overpopulated: https://youtu.be/Sjur6Bu30YM Geopolitics of Mahabharata: https://youtu.be/HJcg4Y265_s Hope you enjoyed FutureIQ by Navin Kabra and Shrikant Joshi. Do hit us up on Twitter: @ngkabra http://twitter.com/ngkabra @shrikant https://twitter.com/shrikant Listen it on the podcast provider of your choice: https://tapthe.link/FutureIQRSS Watch other episodes of The FutureIQ podcast: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLAppTB0r5_TaYueZ0adD42Wiw5X-wTE4v Links for further investigation: Alabama coastlines and modern elections: https://tapthe.link/WyDGJn42s How geography made US a superpower thread: https://tapthe.link/Tu3t4Y8US Why Europeans dominated Americans thread: https://tapthe.link/VQdvKClrr Why Brazilians speak Portuguese thread: https://tapthe.link/Gm8rZWCB6 India’s overpopulation thread: https://tapthe.link/MQd1US9tK Locust attacks vs the shape of Indian Ocean: https://tapthe.link/GDThkPuYu Chicago size vs ice age: https://tapthe.link/Z8yalRNEX Why New York is bigger than most east coast cities: https://tapthe.link/gMZga5A9b Blue banana GDP: https://tapthe.link/3AJGRsekK Geography interesting posts: https://tapthe.link/NRuOS6_2U YT channel for geography: https://www.youtube.com/geographynow Chapters: 00:00 Introduction 00:20 Geography 01:39 Explaining things based on geography 04:41 How US became a superpower 06:05 Producing stuff/farming 07:00 Oil and gas 08:55 US & Power 09:15 Why white europeans took over America 11:40 Diseases 13:26 Geography is amazing #futureiq #geopolitics