Since a continuum is something that keeps changing over time, and Israel, a nation regarded as the holy land by a significant amount of people, among them, the Jewish population, Christians and Muslims, due to the number of times that area has been renamed, destroyed, rebuilt and inhabited by a variety of different groups of people up until today, and because the state of Israel is still uncertain due its partial recognition status, Israel is experiencing a location continuum.
This would be an example of "chronological history", since the evens are being "placed" in the order in which they occurred. This is often helpful to understand "cause and effect" relationships.
In his long telegram, Novikovhas describe sees the US as a country planning for world domination. During that time, the US had been leading in manufacturing as well as had been able to create trade agreements with other countries who are hoping to prosper by rebuilding some of its structures with the help of the United States. He feels that the US had the upper hand compared to Russia, and thus started the Cold War