• Culture
  • Controlling the environment: external political interests
  • Survival:unique Mormon characteristics
  • Tithing distribution
  • Mormons' unreliable irrigation gives rise to other sources of subsistence
  • Reasons for Mormon success

• Geography
  • Currently no Geography Links

• Organization
  • Mormons were able to control and manipulate their harsh environment
  • Creation of Zion's Board of Trade
  • Seeking non-agricultural means of subsistence

• Technology
  • Controlling the environment through technology
  • Mormons controlling their environment
  • Role of tithing in development of irrigation and canal system
  • Irrigation as vital to entire Mormon enterprise in the West

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