ABSTRACT
Biodiversity and inter-regional connectivity were closely related to the geography of the continents. On the Eurasian continent, the temperate zone where human survival is easier spreads from east to west so that new food varieties, technologies, and inventions could be transmitted to other areas. Africa and Asia too were relegated to the bottom of the world economy through contact with the West. Whether natural or unnatural, it is evident that the regions located at the western and eastern ends of Eurasia followed different and yet comparable paths of economic development. In the West and the East, the initial conditions for development were far from the same. The fact is that few mentions of Africa have been made in these spirited discussions about the reinterpretation of global history. Looking at the world before the Great Divergence, the world at both ends of Eurasia – the East and the West – continued to grow in terms of population and economy.
