Complete the formulation.
Geography sets the ______. People choose. The choices ______. All three clauses are load-bearing: drop the first and the patterns are inexplicable, drop the second and you have an alibi with a map, drop the third and you cannot explain why small differences in cost became civilizational differences. Geography acts on costs and ______ — never on character.
Word bank: price list · compound · institutions · climate · destiny
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- Geography sets costs rather than outcomes.
- The effects compound through institutions over time.
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Geography sets the price list. People choose. The choices compound. All three clauses are load-bearing: drop the first and the patterns are inexplicable, drop the second and you have an alibi with a map, drop the third and you cannot explain why small differences in cost became civilizational differences. Geography acts on costs and institutions — never on character.
Price list, compound, institutions. Not a compromise between determinism and possibilism for the sake of the middle, it is the answer, and Greenland is the proof.
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