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Almost all craddles of civilization happened to be around major rivers in large plains, except American ones, why did Pre-Columbian american civilizations develop on the Mexican and Andean mountains rather than, for example, the Mississippi basin?

by /u/RutilantBoss in /r/AskHistorians

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