CyclopsSummers wrote:
I'm not an expert on these things, but couldn't Europe be viewed as a peninsula of Eurasia? Europe and Asia (safe for India and I believe the Arabian Peninsula) are currently on the same tectonic plate, aren't they?
Yes, they are.
CyclopsSummers wrote:
It would appear that the only reason Europe is viewed as a separate continent, is because of centuries-long arrogance of its occupants (Romans, Frankish Empire under Charlemagne, the Christians in general throughout the Dark Ages, the European colonial empires that rose after the Renaissance).
Well, maybe so. But I'd like to a bit more humane and say that when people became aware of different continents, they knew nothing about tectonic plates or things like that. They simply divided the world into large areas which were distinct from each other. And what about naming America? When the new world got its specific designation derived from Amerigo Vespucci, I'm pretty sure they weren't thinking about a
continent per se, but just a remote area somewhere between China and Portugal.
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