No where else in the world do we count a collection of islands as a continent. I live in New Zealand and Australasia is the name of our continent. Grey on this very subject. Apart from his take on continents, his Youtube channel is very much worth subscribing to. Nice video Greg, so everyone can make his continents like he wants…hmmm. I remember being quite disturbed by the fact that I saw 6 on my maps despite what my teacher said.
There is Central America, not only South and North. America is ONE continent with three sub-continents. China does it differently…. I had never seen any layout different from the basic Mercator version using the same scheme — but clearly, people can and do have different ones. I first encountered that in some documentary piece with a scene shot in a Chinese schoolroom — I noticed a world map in the background similar to the link above.
With North-vs-South, there is the Isthmus of Panama. With Asia-vs- Europe, there is the Ural mountain range the standard dividing line when you do delineate the two. If it was considered from a beginning as two different continents probably the north and south will be named differently.
Who knows? The division and naming of continents and lands have a lot of different factors, from history, cultural views, and language. Having you notice the comments on Australia, Australasia and Oceania? Each of the different ways of subdividing and naming the regions of the planet are right, our culture defines how we see the world, and this is one way. There are 6 continents. There is no physiogeological division between Europe and Asia, they are one continent Eurasia.
I am from Russia and we always were taught there are 6 continents on our planet. We had to find out that people in different countries were educated different and looks like everybody is right who think there are 6 or 7 continents.
But I refer to 6, because Eourope and Asia is one whole landmass. I always that America was one continent and not divided into North and South. And, actually 50 yrs ago when I was in school, Antarica was not considered a continent so there were only 5 continents. I was always taught that America was one continent and not divided into North and South.
I was educated under the British system. Found this discussion while reading some technical article about GPS where there is a mention of 7 continents, what triggered my memory and started to google for clarifications.
My opinion is that that the correct model is the one with 6 continents: Africa, America, Eurasia, Australiasia and Antartica. Two Americas? The fact that America is a continent and not a country is just common sense. This design is spectacular! You most certainly know how to keep a reader entertained. Between your wit and your videos, I was almost moved to start my own blog well, almost…HaHa! Excellent job. I really loved what you had to say, and more than that, how you presented it. Too cool! Eurasia is clearly one landmass — so why classify it as two continents?
Another consistent model would be a 4 continent model, that groups them as: Americas both S. But it IS one connected landmass. What is dividing Africa from that mix? The Mediterranean? If so, the Caribbean is enough to divide Americas. As most of us know, the name America comes from the first name of explorer and cartographer Amerigo Vespucci. Vespucci was preceded by Christopher Columbus, who is regarded as having discovered America in Vespucci and Columbus each made four voyages which took them to South America, the Caribbean islands and Central America.
As far as I can determine, no evidence exists that either man ever laid eyes on the territory of the United States on any of those eight voyages. This is perfectly sensible, since in those names North, South, East and West are adjectives modifying the nouns Africa, Asia and Europe respectively.
For America to be a place which neither Columbus nor Vespucci ever laid eyes on but exclude the places which they actually sailed to is irrational, absurd and frankly insulting to those of us who live in one of the other 35 countries in America. Bill, you are right that the U.
Should not go by America; however, the fact that the north and south share the name America does not make it one continent. Its absurd to think that because continents newly discovered by Europeans centuries ago were both called America that they must always be considered one. I realize that Columbus did not name anything America.
I was born in the United States and I never refer to the country as America. Basically the United States of America is a stupid name for a country. Often some consider Six and some as Seven. Some argue Five cause there are five circles in Olympics flag. Great blog here! Also your web site loads up very fast! What web host are you using? Can I get your affiliate link to your host? I wish my web site loaded up as quickly as yours lol.
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When I was a kid growing in Panama we learned in school that there were 5 continents. My husband couldn't believe me that they taught us like that in school. So we decided to Google it and we found out that in several countries they teach this in the same way they do it in mine, well at least when I was in school so many years ago. Maybe they have changed it now but this it what I've recall. This is no a debate about which is the correct answer, it is most out of curiosity to know if is indeed true that other countries teach this differently than the US.
I was taught that Asia and Europe are 2 different continents, but now I think that's silly. Had no idea there are polls on this forum, that's pretty dang cool! There are 7 continents or at least that how my school thought me haha. So to some people there are only 2 continents.
Just sayin' Yes, they haven't agreed on how many. Here in the United States, kids in schools are taught that there are 7. But I know that in many parts of the world they teach 6 or 5 or maybe 2. I mean
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