547.42 miles
872.99 kilometres
Research by some scholars provides population estimates of the pre-contact Americas to be as high as 112 million in 1492, while others estimate the population to have been as low as eight million. In any case, the native population declined to less than six million by 1650.
I believe there is a book on the matter as well. Good luck. :)
Its location. the silkroad stretches from china to europe
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Alliances contributed to the start of World War I because so many alliances were being created all over the world. Most alliances would agree to protect one another if either country in that alliance got attacked by other countries. So if a country got attacked by another one, you could expect the country being attacked to be backed up by their alliance, creating future wars to commence.
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