Tim Marshall's Prisoners Of Geography Ten Maps That Explain Everything About The World

In the book, Prisoners of Geography Ten Maps that Explain Everything About the World, Tim Marshall states Geography influences countries interactions with one another. The author highlights how countries defend and trade based on their geography. In addition, the book states the importance of not making artificial borders. Geography can create buffers protecting a country, however, it can also create a weakness allowing an invasion. Similarly, trade is affected by geography. For example, Africa has few deep water ports preventing it from shipping its plentiful natural resources. Geography is also to blame for the Middle East's poor state. Brittain overlooked the existing borders of religions and culture and created countries with mixed religion

For Example as good as technology gets it will never be able to give Japan the natural resources needed to be an economic power. In turn, Japan must import all their natural resources. The text states, on page 222, “ Japan had few of the natural resources required to become an industrial nation.” this goes to show that even the most technologically advanced countries still need materials such as oil and precious metals. By the same token, Russia will never become a manufacturing giant due to the fact that their ports freeze during the winter. On page 37 the author states, “ It doesn’t matter is the ideology of those in control is Czarist, Communist, or crony capitalist -- the ports will still freeze…” Going to show that now matter who leads Russia they will never be able to stop the ports from freezing even with the best technology. Similarly, China and India the two most populated countries in the world, who also share a 1000 plus mile long border, have never had a major war. Simply because the Himalayas separate them. Tim Marshall states, on page 201, “Without the world’s tallest mountain rage between the, what is a lukewarm relationship would probably be frosty.” Going to show that two neighbor countries can be kept at peace when there is a mountain range between