HIS333H1- Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 50 pages long!)
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The separation of asia, europe, and libya as three distinct continents originated with the greeks. The ionian kin to the east of the aegean sea had succumbed to the. Persian king and were thus seen as weak. They tended to view the continents as physical entities but with little substance. Other philosophers took issue with the tripartite continent. Herodotus) believed that libya and asia should be divided based on the nile in egypt, so as to not separate egypt as a cultural realm. He wanted a more elegant model that made more sense naturally, aesthetically, etc. In the rst century, it was said that asia and europe were separated based on the. In the classical period, both maps and poems were behind the times. Romans, this continental scheme was used to distinguish the east and west subdivisions of the empire, with asia designating the east end of the empire and.
