Comment on This makes so much more sense
protist@retrofed.com 1 week agoI thought the boundary was generally agreed upon as the Ural and Caucasus Mountains?
Comment on This makes so much more sense
protist@retrofed.com 1 week agoI thought the boundary was generally agreed upon as the Ural and Caucasus Mountains?
irate944@piefed.social 1 week ago
That would be eventually. But back then, Europe and Asia weren’t continents, they were names of undetermined regions that were north or east of them respectively.
I don’t know when or who decided “you know what? This whole region? It’s a continent, and let’s call it Europe” (maybe the Romans? Or even the Greeks?).
captainlezbian@lemmy.world 1 week ago
“That’s where the sun rises, that’s where it sets, and this sea is the middle of the earth”