You can see how blessed is America with its geography, if you compare Mississippi with Volga. The largest river in Europe. Easily navigable. No rapids. Slow -> easy travel in both directions. And flowing nowhere 
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Volga flowing into the endorheic Caspian Sea, it did not connect you with the World Ocean
Color = which sea do the rivers flow into
Dark grey = rivers do not flow into the ocean = relative isolation
Entire Volga/Kama basin including all of Central Russia is dark grey
Color = which sea do the rivers flow into
Dark grey = rivers do not flow into the ocean = relative isolation
Entire Volga/Kama basin including all of Central Russia is dark grey
Waterways being the most important means of communications till the railroad boom, the drainage patterns shaped the historical patterns of development. For example, Volga did not allow for an easy travel to the ocean but it allowed for an easy trip to the Greater Iran and back
This may be a reason why the middle eastern coins may have been the most common medieval currency in what is now European Russia in Middle Ages. Archaeologists may correct me, but I believe dirhams etc. are *the* most common finding in treasures all the way to the Northern Urals
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