It is important because the French regained the high ground
Try reading the first paragraph of this. It may help. https://books.google.com/books?id=IQwAAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA2&lpg=PA2&dq=How+does+columbus+and+smith+deploy+...
The larger state, the more votes. If the state has a large population the state have more votes to give. The states vote as blocks. So if 51% of people vote for a candidate in a state it is if 100% votes for that candidate. <span> 9 states in America have nearly 60% of the US population. So without this system the whole race would only involve only those 9, and within those 9 only the massive cities they have. Ex. Chicago, New York, LA etc.</span>
The Baltic Sea is located in Northern Europe enclosed by the northwest part of Russia, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Sweden, Finland, Denmark, Poland and Germany. Around these shores of the Baltic the merchant cities formed the powerful federation known as Hanseatic League.
I would say london data would represent the x-axis