Motherboard: Some very large part of Western civilization's development comes courtesy of the trade winds. It's these winds that form very large-scale patterns of surface air movement spanning entire hemispheres; a 15th century ship setting sail from Portugal toward the New World just had to latch on and cruise. Eventually, said vessel can be assured of delivery by these winds to the general vicinity of the Bahamas or further into the Caribbean Sea. The trade winds soon enough became the backbone of proto-globalization,...