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The relationship between ethnicity and geography is a historically important one going back to Aristotle. This issue is detailed in the book, Black Athena, in which various colonial powers used geography to justify claims of racial and ethnic superiority through the belief that the temperate regions of Europe produced temperate personalities while harsh & extreme climates produced individuals that were prone to extremes and fanaticism. Louise Louise A. Hitchcock, Ph.D. Research Associate Von Grunebaum Center for Near Eastern Studies UCLA (310)825-9639 %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%