Six Consequences of the Accident of Geography

can also be seen as

Six Reasons and Explanations for the particular characteristics of the West

can also be seen as

Six Approaches for answering the Question:

Why Europe?

What made Europe so different from the societies

it encountered on other continents from 1500 on?

*Geographic accident

*Richness of plant and animal resources (accident)

*Easy migration of unforeseen advantages (accident)

set in motion that chain of transformation represented in the string

Geography > Food Production > State Society > Technology > Money

Economy > Big 5 Domesticated Animals > Disease Resistances

Those unforeseen advantages flowed west to Western Europe,

Western Europe < Rome < Greece < Fertile Crescent

and they set up at least six specific characteristics of Western Society in 1500.