Why Are Europe & Asia Considered 2 Different Continents?

Europeans may despise Asians by this way.

Ideological reasons.

In fact, it's Eurasia.

ummm.... you could just google it no?

Conventionally, "continents are understood to be large, continuous, discrete masses of land, ideally separated by expanses of water."[2] Many of the seven most commonly recognized continents identified by convention are not discrete landmasses separated by water. The criterion "large" leads to arbitrary classification: Greenland, with a surface area of 2,166,086 square kilometres (836,330 sq mi) is considered the world's largest island, while Australia, at 7,617,930 square kilometres (2,941,300 sq mi) is deemed to be a continent. Likewise, the ideal criterion that each be a continuous landmass is often disregarded by the inclusion of the continental shelf and oceanic islands, and contradicted by classifying North and South America as two continents; and/or Eurasia and Africa as two continents, with no natural separation by water. This anomaly reaches its extreme if the continuous land mass of Europe and Asia is considered to constitute two continents. The Earth's major landmasses are washed upon by a single, continuous world ocean, which is divided into a number of principal oceanic components by the continents and various geographic criteria

Turks aren't Asians, lol.

Europe is a peninsula of the eurasian landmass.

Yeah. we are Martians.

Martians with hats. [link to upload.wikimedia.org]

Either way 'Europe' isnt a landmass of its own. Im not reading all that copy & pasted nonsense. I believe 'Europe' was made into a continent by the elite on the basis of promoting racial superiority.It has no defined boundaries, if you walked through "europe" without a map you would'nt know when you crossed the "european" border into Russia.

I believe that too

This is better I guess.

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Could be a prop from a Harry Potter movie. Bavarian wizards...

Because people are idiots and racist. Europe and Asia are one continent.

You're absolutely wrong.

But then again, Africa is connected to Asia, so then it turns out, Africa is not a continent either?

Eurasia = geopolitical term.

Also,

at one time, people from Europe to India spoke one language:

Indo-European.

Let's take it one step further and say, "Why are Europe, Asia & Africa considered three different continents?"

Yes they are.

But most Turks are dumb, as are most people of any nationality, so their history is unknown to them as dumb people do not like to read.

Turks are Asian and genetically tied to Mongols. In fact, Turkic peoples are descendants of Mongols.

FYI.

Kurdish people ftw! Fuck you!

Through colonialsim they spoke indo-european. I work with an indian guy, dont get him started on europeans the conversation will never end. But yes, Africa really extends through russia into Asia if were going by land mass. The only thing that disconnected the lands was the suez canal, done purposely to cut Africa off from the rest of the world and give europeans a short cut through the red sea instead of going all the way around through the straits of gilbratar. That single passage(straits of gilbratar) is the reason Egypt dominated the world for so long because there was one way in & one way out.

Exactly My friend! Were realizing how connected the world really is...or should I say was.

Last Edited by Ka-EL on 07/12/2012 10:51 AM

You are correct OP "Europe" is actually Asia Minor and is not a continent. Imperialist Industrialists who ruled the 19th and 20th centuries made up this bullshit but as the fall away ,as we see now with all their financial corruption, their definitions will too. Personally I don' care about it being called Europe, I just resent it being called a Continent when it is not. This is a form of Predicative Programming or mind control. Just lke this B.C./ A.D. bullshit, that shit is race based and inaccurate since Whites didn't come to power until the trans atlantic slave trade in the 17th century. They have retroactively claimed time. Bullshit.

Historically most turkic peoples lived in what is now modern day China. During the heyday of the Han dynasty in China, Han Chinese generals like Huo Qubing and Wei Qing drove them further and further west until modern day Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan where they completely destroyed the confederated Turkish states.

Do you know why the great wall of China built?

Europe was stunted by Religion too. It wasn't until reduced the control of the church and invested in literacy that they excelled. As long as the Imam's and Mosque dominate Muslims they will never be real competition accept to tear down civilization because of religion.

Once Muslims separate Church and State they will dominate. Islam owes it's economic domination early on to the fact hat West Africa's Muslim population were not Zealots against science and thought.

Notice how Muslim dominance ceased once the Muslim empires of in West Africa and North Africa fell and the Slave trade began. The Africans were a sophisticated merchant society this is why the Universities at Djedd and Timbuktu thrived.

Arabs and Islam radically declined until oil was discovered and even now with all that oil their populations are kept ignorant and undereducated.

Yes, that's the reason...

Indo-European was spoken before colonies fucking existed.

Do you know about Aryans?

People spoke Indo-European because it was THEIR language, from Europe to India. Hence why so many words from European countries all the way to India sound similar, because the roots of words is in the language they all spoke at one time.

Not because one colonized the other, that happened thousands of years after the Indo-European language got split into many languages, after the Indo-European people split up all the way from Europe to India.

Greenland should upgrade to continent status

Maybe they were bitter about having the mongols come over and slaughtering them periodically.

lol yes it should man

of racial elitism

All islands should be considered continents becouse they are all contiguous land masses surrounded by water. Who said we cannot have a LOT of continents? The Europeans!