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Originally Posted by Kang Seung Jae
For the last time: Northern Siberia is completely unsuitable for a lasting settlement in the 19th century. Only since the 1930's as norther Siberia been able to have large amount of people.
Really, I do wish people would at least KNOW the history of Siberia beofre thinking it as some Wild East, full of empty land for anyone to settle down.
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Up to this point I wasn't advocating large settlements like those of southern Siberia to occur in Northern Siberia. But I still maintain that taiga environment CAN at least support low density subsistance farming or grazing and logging activites aside from furs on its southern part, making CG-verse Siberia more than a few fur-trading-outposts during the XIXth century.
I agree that its only by the XXth that mineral resources discoveries allowed it to support more people.