Assertion: eastern hemisphere | /r/HasProperty | inhabited for longer time
Facets:
value: much
type: DEGREE
Source sentences:
text: There are doubtlessly many different reasons why it worked out that way, but it is probably important that the Eastern Hemisphere, including Eurasia and Africa, was inhabited for a much longer time and had more diverse ethnicities with longer histories, which became more competititve with each other than the relatively homogeneous cultures of the Western Hemisphere, and the competition pushed civilization to greater complexity.