Why is Asia a continent and Europe a separate continent when they are attached entirely.?
Isn't the division between Asia and Europe only political, and not geographical?
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I don't know why they would do that. I just think that they didn't Asia and Europe to be too big. So they split it. That's my theory. I'm probably wrong.
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the Ural mountains separate them
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The two contents are divided by the Ural Mountains, which is the boundary between Asia & Europe, it extends from kazakstan to the arctic ocean.
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The Asian people is totally different from European people, the appearance, the culture, the clothes, the History, etc.
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All geologists and a lot of (most? all?) geographers don't recognize Europe as a separate continent, but a cultural region of the Eurasian continent. Having the Urals as a boundary is meaningless and arbitrary. Let's call California a separate continent. The Sierra Nevada separates the continent of California from North America. Mountains don't separate continents, tectonic plates do. Europe and Asia are on one plate, the Eurasian Plate.
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Continents are not necessarily physically separated. For example North America and South America.
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Continents, on the other hand, are fairly concrete, and we can turn once again to Mr. Webster, where we find that a continent is "one of the usually seven great divisions of land on the globe." The seven referred to are North America, South America, Europe, Asia, Africa, Australia and Antarctica, and the "usually" is thrown in for those that prefer to think of Europe and Asia as "Eurasia," dropping the number to six. If you'd like to join the upstart cartographers, you can throw in "The Middle East" and bring the number back up to seven, or include them all for a grand total of eight. Just don't expect most people to consider you a wealth of geographic knowledge. First of all, geography in years past was never the exact science we know today. The western boundary of "The East", that is, the dividing line between east and west, until as late as the 19th century, was often considered to be the Nile River (although other boundaries, such as Russia's Don River, had their adherents), lumping Egyptian culture and history in with what they were coming to define as "Asian" traits. It was ultimately these traits that really formed the notion of the separation between Europe and Asia (and eventually Africa was considered separate from Europe), with the three known continents defined not by geographical boundaries, but as the domains of the white, black, and yellow people. That's only part of the article. Go to the source for more. Hope that helps ^_^
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