>>6093221Explain the Incan Empire then or Tawantisuyu.
The Central Andes regions is not "low in resources" IT IS HELL ON EARTH to build a civilization.
Constant Warfare.
Arid as fuck in the shores.
Huge mountains that make commerce hard as fuck.
Valleys that cannot sustain a huge population.
Plateaus that are concentrated in the Titi Caca lake and far from other points of commerce or food production.
But a military empire was born anyways, and was bigger than Texas.
But down in Chile, the Araucanos had a nice geography full of navigable rivers and shores with a lot of green pine forests and they still didn't make it.