It was "mountain ranges in the north and west" that helped India develop for thousands of years in this way, since these mountains were very hard to cross with large armies.
Fertile Crescent, which arcs from the Persian Gulf to Turkey and south to Egypt
The New England colonies were more focused on the Religion as the people who came there from Europe tended to be pilgrims (a Traveler who is on a journey to a holy place) and were more isolated and had very small farms just to provided for its owners. The middle colonies were mostly ports and industry as well as lumber, they built ships and the south was used for cash crops some examples of cash crops were cotton, tobacco, rice,wheat, rye, corn, barley,potatoes) and food and required the most slaves because it was the least populated
As a result of the energy crisis, in 1973-1974, U.S citizens became aware of ecology. If not, their environment would be endangered.