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larger head start than any other country

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did but like okay that doesn't really
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answer anything the real question is why
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did they have so many more people than
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anywhere else 300 years ago the big two
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answers to that question are land and
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food china and india measured by land
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are both massive places and they both
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have large rivers that flow across easy
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to farm planes modern india has more
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arable land than any other country in
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the world and unsurprisingly china has
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the fourth highest amount behind russia
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in the united states the reason why
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china had more people than either of
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those countries 300 years ago though is
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that russia has a bit of a problem with
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the cold and they mostly can't grow
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crops year-round while the united states
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just simply didn't exist yet so once
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again china simply had a bigger head
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start with thousands of years of farming