#443 – Gregory Aldrete: The Roman Empire – Rise and Fall of Ancient Rome

12380.104 - 12401.573 Gregory Aldrete

I think there's a real geographic determinism to civilization itself. I mean, you know, if you look at where civilization arose, it's in Mesopotamia and sort of a swampy land between two rivers. It's in the Nile River Delta where the same situation. It's in the Indus River where you have the same thing. And it's along the Yellow Rivers and the Yangtze Rivers where it's the same thing.