Americans living in cities like Phoenix could literally die without AC

But certainly the equator is hotter than Arizona? People live on the equator.

Hat and clothing as well as shelter ust like Arabia

nobody lived there. Pheonix and Las Vegas are tributes to man's arrogance.

idiot
it isn't lmao. Maybe overall but arizona gets hotter in the summer

you need water too, and arable soil. hard to do when the land looks like this

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I’m Colombian and the hottest parts of the country never pass 95F, the Caribbean is way cooler than Texas and it gets down to 75F at night

All you need is water and soil and crops/animals like cows.

You can make a dwelling from digging underground, from caves or from stone/wood to protect from sun

no, equator usually gets clouds which keeps them cooler, in india the northern part gets hotter than the southern

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They literally didnt. Phoenix was a small city of ~50,000 until the 50s when post-war economic growth and air conditioning facilitated its growth. Before that phoenix was a tiny agricultural town that was reliant on migrant laborers. The southwest was very sparsely populated until the post war years and in fact to even get infrastructure built the government had to offer more than double the rate of most other regions for laborers to come to the southwest. Humans dont like living in 110 degree heat.

The LAS VEGAS BVLL....

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>50,000
so what would be a large city at any point in human history until the 1900s or so?

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2003_European_heat_wave

>Peer-reviewed analysis places the European death toll at more than 70,000.[3]
>Because of the usually relatively mild summers, most people did not know how to react to very high temperatures (for instance, with respect to rehydration), and most single-family homes and residential facilities built in the last 50 years were not equipped with air conditioning.

>be european
>dont know what drinking water is
>cant afford air conditioning

not to mention that all of the water basins in the great basin are very salty

They were old people this happens in USA power outages too

Is there any water underground?

probably

There have been people in the Southwest for thousands of years. Cochise as early as 7000 BC and Clovis potentially before that.

based

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I lived in Phoenix and this is unironically true
it's a hot shithole that has no business being populated

That's not even remotely comparable to the modern cities and suburbs of the southwest. Also the pre-Colombian peoples of the southwest probably enjoyed a much milder climate with more frequent rainfall. In fact most of the major civilizations in the region, like the hohokam and the inhabitants of mesa verde, seem to have collapsed due to the southwest becoming more arid.

Denver was 6x that size in 1940. I dont know why you're trying to portray phoenix as a metropolis throughout all ages here.