Continents.

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Flilix said:

Leadified said:

North America has more legitimacy to be it's own continent than say something like Europe. North America has it's own tectonic plate, only connected to South America via a small land strip like Africa is to Asia and the small land strip is inaccessible to walk or drive across since it's a large swamp.

Back when they started to divide the world into continents, nobody cared about Russia, so they got the impression that the world existed out of 3 landmasses, divided by the Mediterranean Sea.

It's not that they didn't care, it's more about that they didn't know. The Greeks divided Europe and Asia to the north by the Don River (like how they divided Africa and Asia by the Nile) which is much further west than the current division at the Urals.

If you look at a reconstruction of the Hecataeus map of the world, you can see why Europe, Asia and Africa (Libya) were divided the way they were.

Last edited by Leadified - on 06 November 2017