How does an Equatorial climate (eg in rainforests) affect people and the environment?
There are two main features of climate around the equator: it’s warm, and it’s stable. Most equatorial regions have the same temperature year-round. Some have a rainy and dry season–sometimes more than one of each. I read somewhere a theory that civilizations in temperate regions developed technologically because the presence of a cold season during which crops could not be grown stimulated prior planning and use of calendars in temperate civilizations. Equatorial civilizations, not needing these innovations, never developed them and thus did not advance. I’m not sure if I buy that theory, but it’s interesting and at least rational.
