In 1885 European leaders met at the infamous Berlin Conference to divide Africa and arbitrarily draw up borders that exist to this day. Lines of longitude and latitude, rivers and mountain ranges were pressed into service as borders separating the colonies.
<span>I'm not sure I
completely understand what the question is asking for. When I look at
the plates, it looks like they all fit together like a giant puzzle.
They separated due to tectonic plates shifting over hundreds of years.
This was based on the theory that there was a supercontinent (one giant
landmass). I'm not sure how much this helps, but I hope it does. Good
luck!!
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The Gobi Desert spans across Mongolia and China. It specifically runs across northwestern and northern China and Southern Mongolia. The Gobi is a large desert region in Asia and is a rain shadow desert formed by the Himalaya range blocking rain-carrying clouds from the Indian Ocean from reaching the Gobi territory. The Gobi is most notable for it being the location for several important cities in the Silk Road and as part of the Great Mongol Empire.