Word: continentality
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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"This orientation of the axes has had a huge effect on human history," he said. "The result is that crops and livestock domesticated in one part of Eurasia quickly spread to the rest of that continent."
He said that in Eurasia, migration of domesticated animals and crops was easy because the climate and conditions are relatively the same across most of the continent. The Americas, by contrast, have dramatically different climates from north to south, making migration, and thus diversification, difficult.
"This orientation of the axes has had a huge effect on human history," he said. "The result is that crops and livestock domesticated in one part of Eurasia quickly spread to the rest of that continent."
He said that in Eurasia, migration of domesticated animals and crops was easy because the climate and conditions are relatively the same across most of the continent. The Americas, by contrast, have dramatically different climates from north to south, making migration, and thus diversification, difficult.
On its own, the crime would have been horrible enough. But coming just eight days after the Littleton massacre, it was the centerpiece of a fevered week of copycat incidents at schools across the continent. Authorities rounded up scores of kids for allegedly plotting to blow up their schools, sneaking...