Name: What if Pangea Still Existed?
Uploaded: 2017-07-22T11:24:36.000Z
Duration: 4 min 21 s
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The continents haven't always looked the way they are.

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Hopefully, this isn't a new fact for you.

Earth has mashed its land masses together.

all the Earth's continents were connected into one large supercontinent

until breaking up and eventually forming the continents we see today.

and if humans were rose to spread across the world.

affected by the environment and geography.

Without an Africa factor for apes to be able to rise,

homo sapiens ancestors would have gone down a much different alternate path.

This said, we can still place humans on Pangea for the sake of the theory.

and would be able to spread and conquer this Pangea world.

But geographically, what would this planet look like?

We can only get a basic look of what its shape was

where most land is in the Northern Hemisphere,

most land on Pangea was south of the Equator.

Long mountain ranges rose in the center of Pangea from connecting continents.

Similar to India pushing up against Asia,

arid desert landscapes formed due to lack of rainfall.

It's been theorized, mega monsoons swept from the oceans

and brought rain to the equatorial regions.

This would replenish the vast rainforests which spanned the Equator,

which is present day North America in western Europe.

was from the lush tropical forest millions of years ago.

human civilization would be drawn to the coastline

Even if all of humanity share the same continent,

this does not mean they would be more connected.

If large deserts or rainforests did form in the center of Pangea,

they would just be as limiting to communication

were almost the equivalent of the Americas

still use spears up against British machine guns.

of the Saharan desert and the Congo jungle.

Both regions were very difficult to cross

between civilizations of East Asia and Europe

we could still see the same effects in Pangea.

while the equator rainforests could split north and south.

Present day North America and Eurasian peoples

could develop a culture independent of South American,

This was just my two cents on the matter.

but it's always fun to explore the possibilities and geography.

What do you think the world would be like if Pangea still existed?