• irate944@piefed.social
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    20 days 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?).