Every Continent's Name Explained

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240 million years ago there was one giant mega-continent called Pangaea. Things were simpler then, you could walk from South Africa to Greenland and Switzerland had tropical beaches. But then Pangea broke up and things are complicated. Today we have 7 continents or 5 or if you're really cool 4, it mostly depends on what language you speak and what century it is. Regardless of how many there are, they all have names. But what is an Africa? What does Asia mean? And is Australia a filthy name thief? Well, Let's Find Out.

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Sources and Further Reading:

The Myth of Continents: A Critique of Metageography, by Martin W. Lewis and Kären Wigen

A Greek-English Lexicon by Scott Liddell

Terra Cognita The Mental Discovery of America - Eviatar Zerubavel

Robert Steven Paul Beekes, Lucien van Beek - Etymological Dictionary of Greek (vols. 1 & 2)

West, Martin Litchfield - Indo-European poetry and myth

Encyclopedia of Geography - Barney Warf

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