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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Basically it mattered who colonized where. South America and Mexico where for the most part Spanish and Portugese, meanwhile Canada and the US were combination French and English.
So in short Spain and Portugal mostly focused on getting rare materials like rubber, gold, silver, etc.
Meanwhile in US and Canada we had substantially less accessible deposits during that period, so we went with grains, timber and fur trading.
Personally I think the political structure of the native groups was key as well, in that because groups like the Inca and Maya and Aztec where already organized as empires the Spanish where harder on them and making sure that there was less development that could cause organization and rebellion.
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