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One thing I learned is that the greatest empires emerged out of the shittiest prices of land.

The fertile crescent was the birthplace of the first civilizations, and it was far worse for food compared to the IRL garden of eden that was sub-saharan Africa, other empires that followed soon after remained within that region.

Further to the north were were the later empires of the western hemisphere, where the land was even worse due to harsher winters or geographic barriers.

Good land makes a weak people, bad land makes a people need to get good or die out from the environmental factors and scarcity of resources.

Then when these people who adapted to worse lands move back down to where life is naturally easier, they become like an invasive species that completely dominates any competition that the locals have to offer.

Because the baseline qualities for survival that shaped these people were so much higher in the north, they had to have neen at least that good to exist, let alone reproduce.

That's the reason white men conquered the planet, and among the nonwhites the same held true, tha5s why the scariest Asians were from the Mongolian steppes (which were useless for agriculture and the hunter-gatherer lifestyle, so they needed to be extra good to survive there, they became meat farmers) and a small chain of mostly-mountainous islands in the pacific (the home of the glorious nipponese).