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Currents July 2017 By: Dr. Joanie McConnell Geography Can Change History For most students, geography is a dull, boring subject with little relation to real-life events. Yet if we look at some of the great moments in history, we discover that geography often shapes the course of history. In the third century BC, the rich, powerful city of Carthage (in modern-day Tunisia) controlled most of North A