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I know Australia is a highly urbanized country and most people live in cities on the coast. The popular conception in my country is that the interior is one vast desert (the Outback) but that isn’t uniformly true. I’m curious what life is like in this region. I imagine it is very agricultural. What does the landscape look like? Are there any large centers of population or is it more evenly spread out? Does it feel like a transitional zone between the populous coast and the deserts to the west or something entirely unique?

Who would be man’s best friend?

i.e. what if Indo-Iranians migrated east instead of south, significantly altering the pattern of settlement on the continent and driving the earliest Chinese dynasty into the Gangetic Plain, blending their culture with the existing Dravidian population?

What would the religions of the world look like? Would languages even evolve in the same way as they do in our timeline if people settled in different parts of the world with new neighbors? Which extinct language groups might survive a change like this? Would Greece still be fated to wage war with Persia from all the way on the other side of the Eurasian continent?

I have donated many books over the years. These are the ones that remain I have carried with me through three moves. A few are gifts, some are newer, some from college and some from childhood.

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