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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When Spain colonized SA they gave huge country-sized tracts of land to nobility that extracted natural resources/ran farms, etc. It took a while for these to get broken up into individual tracts of land and stunted innovation and the ability for individuals to make a lot of money to spur new development. In NA, England (and to a lesser degree France) allowed non-nobility or non-titled nobility to own land and develop it. This allowed for innovation and for many different classes of people to get wealthy and spur more development.
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