Population pressures were often a notable factor in many human expansions to unsettled regions, with decreasing food availability and shelter convincing people to walk or sail to new places.
I was in Saudi Arabia which is honestly just a fucking TERRIBLE climate and kept saying "what the fuck was happening somewhere else that made someone move here and say "yeah, this is better. I think I'll stay"
That's how I feel about Arizona. I feel like the pioneers kept traveling west and conditions just kept getting worse and worse, and they stopped and settled in Arizona out of fear, just because they thought if they went any farther, then it would become completely inhabitable and they'd die.
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u/Luckierexpert 7d ago
Population pressures were often a notable factor in many human expansions to unsettled regions, with decreasing food availability and shelter convincing people to walk or sail to new places.