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?).
I thought the boundary was generally agreed upon as the Ural and Caucasus Mountains?
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?).
“That’s where the sun rises, that’s where it sets, and this sea is the middle of the earth”