China protected by its geography, by the mountains to the west and the Pacific to the east. [1]
The failure of India to achieve the hegemony of Eurasia was largely a matter of topography. The inferior races could not be expelled in the south because the sea surrounded everything. [2] The configuration of continents and other land-arrangement situations are very influential in determining peace or war. [3] Protection of North America by oceans allowed unmolested development. Few Urantian people has had this benefit. [4]
The Mediterranean Roman Empire, the Parthian kingdom, and the adjacent peoples of Jesus’ time all held crude and primitive ideas regarding the geography of the world. [5] The subject of geography is one of the subjects that most interested young Jesus when he was a student. [6]