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Scenarios about 'geography'

The study of Earth's physical features, ecosystems, human populations, and the interactions between them across space and time. Geography examines how landscapes, climate patterns, resource distribution, and territorial boundaries have influenced historical developments, political power, economic systems, and cultural identities. In alternate history scenarios, geographical factors often serve as pivotal divergence points, determining how civilizations might have developed differently under altered environmental or spatial circumstances.

What If Eratosthenes' Calculation of Earth's Circumference Led to Earlier Global Exploration?

Exploring how world history might have unfolded if ancient civilizations had used Eratosthenes' accurate measurement of Earth's size to launch transoceanic voyages, potentially creating a globalized world millennia earlier.