What would the world be like if Pangea was permanent ?

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Kinda a crazy question, but let’s think about the “what if’s” for a second here. 
If Continental plates never shifted, how do you feel the world would be? 
-would we still have boarders?
-would racism still exist? 
-what kind of government (if any) would we have? 
-would we be more socialistic? 
-would their be division amongst classes?
-or would we have a bunch of little villages peacefully coexisting?
If you can think of any questions, this topic is open for more. 😘

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This is an interesting question. 
Racism might not be a defining feature, as I’d assume there’d be more population movement, and population mixing. Ancient societies didn’t have the same concepts of race that we do today, so it’s possible it would never develop in its modern form without transatlantic slavery as a catalyst. 
We’d still create in groups and out groups though. Xenophobia would still exist. Wars over those differences would still happen. 
A more socialist society is an interesting hypothesis. The most densely populated areas do tend to place more emphasis on community, than more sparsely populated areas, so there may be something to that. 🤔

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Everyone would probably be more or less he same color, as the skin differences occurred due to climate/ location (further north, colder, etc). 
If we existed we’d probably be a minority species and not have developed as many tools or technology since all advancements took place due to specific locations climate and land fertility. 
A lot of animal species wouldn’t exist like marsupials and the current ones would have evolved differently. Humans probably would have evolved differently, if we even still existed at all. We might all be more proto-human like. And would be more tribal, individual groups if we hadn’t evolved much more, the way animals still are.

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I’d like to think ‘king of the world’ would be a real thing. But it’s 2018, so we’d probably be fighting for a female king.
Racism would exist, but differently. The racism we see today is based on our specific history. With rewritten history, maybe the racist’s race hierarchy would also be rewritten. 
Further things to consider:
Effects on the ecosystem? Animal migration - it’d be much easier for animals to cross lands and set up shop elsewhere. Would the food chain be affected? Would global warming/climate change/rising sea levels become a non-issue?

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I see this happening 😂

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I think it would all be the same except the US would have joined the world wars a lot sooner.

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I don’t think we would exist if it was still Pangaea.

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We wouldn’t be here. Without tectonic shifts, there’d be no upward motion of molten rock, no mountains no volcanos. Any mountains that existed would erode over time until most sediments would flow to the depths of the ocean, never to rise again (because, no plate movement). Without eroding rock, we’d lose all sources of phosphorus to the ocean, so no more land plants. No more land animals. Life might only exist within the ocean.

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I mean, Mexico is attached to us and theres still people who want to build a wall 🤷🏻‍♀️

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There would likely still be conflicts and wars over resources, I am almost certain we would have boarders. Racism might not exist how we think of it today, bc we'd probably be closer to a single race, but maybe colorism or ppl would find something else to discriminate on with other physical characteristics like hair/eye color, height, weight etc. There would have still likely been slaves at some point since that's very prominent in history, but it would have been different obviously. I think there would also be far less religions, and we would probably only have a handful in the whole world. We'd also probably have similar governments and maybe only a few different currencies.

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Wow, I just wanted to comment to say what an interesting and cool topic this is!!

What would the world be like if Pangea was permanent ?

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