Erdogan says Turkey not supportive of Finland, Sweden joining NATO

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40. When I taught history

one of the most important early messages was the importance of geography.

Rivers, oceans, mountains, lakes and other physical geographic features impact the movement and spread of peoples, invaders, defenders, goods, money and the like.

The light goes on when I got a student to join me at a physical map of the Mediterranean, ancient Middle East and western Asia and asked them what would the easiest places to go.

They drew on my smartboard map, stopping where they found things that might be impassible and going where the going was easy.

Then I drew Alexander's march from Macedonia to India (with his side trips).

The 2 are almost identical.