The first paragraph of this article states, “Long before the Americans, before the Japanese, before the French even, there were the Chinese.” What does the word even imply here?

I think it means that the chinese civilization is the oldest or older than those civilizations.

Explanation:

answer; people where able to travel across the u.s.a faster than any other mode of transportation,travel time was about a week,from coast to coast

legislative branch:

one of the three branches of government divided between the senate and the house of representatives.

- creates or makes laws

- power to override a veto

executive branch:

one of the three branches of government, headed by the president.

- enforces or carries out laws

- power to veto a bill sent to it by congress

judicial branch:

one of the three branches of government, headed by the chief justice of the supreme court.

- interprets laws

- power to declare laws or actions by the government unconstitutional