Why is North America (US + Canada + Mexico) ,.more economically developed than South American counties.. is it just because the is US culturally that different , I mean South Americans.are we’re originally influenced by Western Europe as well . Or is the some geographic or climatic difference that affected development?
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North America was seen as a place to settle and expand into, as a place to colonized. This meant that the nations settling it spent a lot more time and money to build permanent infrastructure in this colonies, which were generally able to become self-sufficient. This isn’t to say that they didn’t rape the land or kill the natives. They just to have their own people over there doing it and invested resourced in developing the places they settled.
In Central and Southern America, the nations saw them land as a place primarily to extract resources from. Instead of bring over their own people to permanently settle in those places as part of the working class, they tended to use slaves, either conquered natives or from Africa. Outside of ports, military bases and government buildings, the foreign nations didn’t really put any people or wealth into the places they controlled.
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