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Iceland and Norway put more value on HDI factors.
Resources for any country are finite and there is a balance between GPD and HDI.
Iceland and Norway are not as focused on business as the United States.
The United States places more value on work and business than on HDI factors.
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Event 1: Italy's location encouraged trade.
Event 2: Italian merchants gained wealth and political power.
Event 3: Italy's families became art patrons.
At one point in the early history of the earth, all the continents where merged together as a mega continent called "Pangea". so there actually was no ocean between the land, allowing for dinosaurs to roam freely across the entire land mass. when the land masses split up, the fossils went with them :)
Divergent boundaries move oceanic plates (plates found in the ocean) away from each other, making magma seep in to fill those cracks, thus spreading the sea floor.