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Jayson Funke asks:
Can anyone tell me of [the] origin of the term continents?
The term is of Greek origin, *epeiros
Greeks considered Ionia (part of today's Turkey)
to be part of Europe.
Jim Devine
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Can anyone tell me of [the] origin of the term continents
known.
Shane Mage
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Jayson Funke asks:
Can anyone tell me
http://homepage.smc.edu/morris_pete/continents.pdf
The Myth of Continents, or How our Grade-School Teachers Distorted the
Truth
by Peter S. Morris
How many continents are there? It seems like a simple enough question,
and most of us who grew up in the United States during the second half
of
I ran across this definition that sheds some light:
A continent (from the Latin continere for to hold together) is a large continuous
mass of land in the planet Earth.
There is no single standard for what defines a continent, and therefore various
cultures and sciences have different lists of
Title: The Origins of Continents
Can anyone tell me of origin of the term continents? Why, for instance, are the Americas split into two continents? Why are Europe and Eurasia separated? Why is India considered a sub-continent, and not, say Canada?
If my suspicions are correct, does
Jayson Funke asks:
Can anyone tell me of [the] origin of the term continents?
The term is of Greek origin, *epeiros*. It seems to have been first
used in the sense of continent by Herodotos. Plato, at Timaios 25A,
speaks of the American continent: ...all that we have
here, lying within the
