Like all of us nowadays, the ancient people also were just born in the place they were born and accepted and adapted to where they lived. Unlike nowadays, they may not even have know that there were warmer area’s on the planet, that – even if they knew – were so far away that it was unreachable. Also which way should they go? Perhaps they gradually (in the course of generations) moved in a certain direction only to find themselves in even harsher climates.
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