>europe is a continent because of it's cultural and geographic

>>2697754
Its not a continent but most people do recognize that North Africa and the Near East are generally a unified cultural area.

>>2697754
UNHAND IRAN YOU DIRTY ARAB FIENDS

>>2697754

Because you're wrong about why Europe is a continent.

>>2697817
Why is Europe a continent then?

>>2697810
>tfw we literally live in an time when the 6th Persian Empire (albeit an Islamic one again) comes to power in the Near East again

>>2697754
What divides MENA from Islamic West Africa, or Central Asia?

>>2697754
>europe is a continent
no it isn't

>>2697830

Because the Greeks said it was.

Europe is a continent because it's seperated from Asia in most spots by geographical features like the Mediterranean or the Urals.

>>2697864
is iberia a different continent?

>>2697843
Besides Sudan, what African nations in Sub-Saharan Africa are Arabic speaking?

>>2697857
Because they defined for the reasons in the OP.

>>2697843
The Sahara and the mountains ranges on the Iranian border.

>Sudan included
Nice try

>>2697873
I think it's classified like India as a subcontinent.

>>2697880
UN.

>>2697876
Senegal, Mauritania, Chad, Nigeria, Mali, Ethiopia, Somalia, Eritrea.

>>2697878
Why don't the Zagros divide Iran from the Middle East?

>>2697877

They thought the Caspian extended all the way north to the Ocean, which would make Europe a geographical continent.

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Not this again.

>>2697926

So all that time they spent memeing about Constantinople being the "key to Europe" and all they had to do was go around the Caspian?

>>2697936

Constantinople is a Roman city, there was nothing but some fishing villages there during the Greek age.

>>2697843
Aside from religion those places have little in common with MENA.

>>2697903
They do. But like the Alps for Italy they do nothing to prevent the cultural and demographic exchanges between it and the rest of the region.

>>2697926
Europe is separated from Asia through the Urals.

>>2697936
>All they had to do
Yeah all they had to do was traverse a few thousand extra miles of barren steppe land to even get to the black sea and even then it was all worthless woods until you got to like Krakow
And then you would have to fight your way through angry Pre-Russians, and increasingly populous Baltic tribes until you hit real feudal states in Poland and Germany that were HEAVILY militarized due to constant interaction with those tribes
Sounds like a cakewalk

>>2697942

Byzantium

>>2697958

>few thousand extra miles
>walking is harder than taking "the key of Europe"

Oh so that's why it was so easily defeated

>>2697967
>Byzantium

Find me a quote from pre-Roman times describing Byzantion as anything but a small village, let alone gateway to anywhere.

>>2697944
>Aside from religion those places have little in common with MENA.

Central Asians speak Turkic or Iranian languages, have cultural influences from the Arab world and Iran, and eat similarly to their Iranian and Afghan neighbours

>>2697976

What exactly are you disputing? Because the advantages of the location of Byzantium was well recognized and understood long before it was turned into Constantinople.

>>2697898
Comorros, Mayotte, Djibouti, Cameroon, Tanzania, Mali, South Sudan, Niger.

>>2697980
Culturally Central Asia is a hodgepodge of the major powers surrounding it - Arab and Turkic Islam from the west, Indus Hinduism and Buddhism from the south and SE, and Chinese from the east, and I'm not sure to what extent Russia influenced it from the north - which is why it's its own thing.

>>2698196
And apart from the languages it's hard to pick out a great deal of pre-Islamic Iranian/ Persian culture that's left, though the mere fact that they identify with it to some extent sets them apart as well.

Doesn't it's own tectonic plates and the Urals make it a continent? I know the meme started with the Greeks, but modern science gave validity to it, just not in the way the Greeks thought.

>>2698330
Makes it more of a geographic region than continent

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>>2697754
Yuroautism as usual. Europe fulfills ZERO(0) of the requirements to be a continent but is one anyway.
>same tectonic plate as asia
>huge border with asia
It's just a glorified peninsula. Even Turkey, Arabia, and India are more continents than Europe could ever be. The continent is Asia, of which, Europe is a mere peninsula.