>>15002062Genetics don't rule everything, but with everything else made equal they're the most important aspect and act as an multiplier of sorts to the additives of culture, geography etc. And in the modern world with most other problems like nutrition and lack of schooling being taken out, it really only leaves genetics and culture on a local level with geography also added on a larger scale. All of these affect each other and all are equally as important in my view, but with genetics and culture being the only ones with real potential for change, either positive or negative.
Regarding the difference between modern and ancient consideration for the middle-east, I'm no historian but this video does a really good job explaining its title:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=60JboffOhawAlso I personally believe genetics differences grow much faster because of human behaviour, dysgenics particularly in the form of cousing marriage has really fucked over the islamic world. Natural evolution takes thousands to millions of years, but with human interference you can make noticeable differences in just 4-6 generations (for humans 100-200 years or so). Basically beneficial behaviour and outside pressure will lead to beneficial genetics, and vice versa with harmful. Less of a cycle and more of an accelerating growth to either direction that at some point in history meets a threshold to cause significant change and a new paradigm is born, for either acceleration or deceleration. And here in the north it's industrialization that has really allowed us to go beyond survival because of our much harsher climate and poorer soil. The Swedish empire pretty much failed simply because they couldn't support a population large enough that could compete with more southern powers.
Really the contributions, especially per capita, of the Nordic countries/Germanic ones from 1800s onwards to all fields that benefit humanity as a whole are so massive that nobody can deny them.
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