[pibaker]

> IOW if a flood comes, both the king and the peasant start digging.

By the same reasoning, India, Bangladesh and China — all ancient civilizations threatened by great rivers — should have developed similar egalitarian cultures but the reality is the polar opposite.

Maybe something as complex as human civilizations can't be the result of just one geographical feature.

[smartbit]

India and China are huge countries with very small percentage river deltas. Not comparable by any means. Bangladesh in a very young country that inherited it’s culture from India. I’m not an anthropologist, but sorry, I don’t agree there is any likeness with these countries.

If you have an other theory about the Dutch culture and why it is so different from it’s neighbors, I happy to hear.