"long before the americans, before the japanese, before the french even, there were the chinese." what does the word even imply here?

This shows that the Chinese are the oldest people around, according to that extract. Long before Americans, Japanese, the French, were the Chinese. That "were" is the key.

yes

explanation:

in 1636, roger williams settled at the tip of narragansett bay after being banished from the massachusetts bay colony for his religious views, on land granted to him by the narragansett tribe. he called the site "providence plantation" and declared it a place of religious freedom.

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