verte76
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Basstrap, you're right about Mercator, but keep in mind that those people knew no Asian geography. Mercator lived in the sixteenth century. They had no means of communication over distances, so they didn't know the distances even existed. They didn't exactly have the evening news. India was not a unified state; it was a conglomeration of kingdoms about which Europeans knew little. Is Russia Europe or Asia? That's something that there's a whole slew of disagreement over. I don't think geographical *size* should necessarily define what's a continent. What the heck is a continent? There are different peoples in Europe, different peoples in Asia, different peoples in Afriica, etc, etc.........is Australia a continent? It's huge. Maybe Europe is not a continent but just some sort of "entity". At any rate I like to think the planet is big enough for all of us.