How Many Continents are There in The World? (Pt. 1)

Hello Readers,

Before I get into what I was actually going to write about, I will post every Sunday and Friday. Anyways, enjoy

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I will actually make a good blog post for the first time lol.

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(THIS BLOG MAY NOT BE 100% ACCURATE (but it is for the most part). If there is an error, put that in the comments, I will fix it)(There will also be grammatical errors)

I might actually make a video on this. Anyways,

History:
Earth is made of large land masses. Greeks were the first to come up with this idea of "Continents". At the time, when they wanted to spilt up the land, they wanted to make Europe distict to Asia (Although they knew that Asia is with Europe is one (Eurasia)). We stuck to this to this day. Your History, Geography (if you had one), teachers said that. Everyone says that.



Anyways, you answer. How many continents are there? 3? 5? 7? Dozons?

You most likely said "7". The truth is, your wrong. (Unless you are that kid in my brother's world history class,

The amount cannot really be determined....kind of.


You see, I think there are 5. Now, I will say, what is NOT a continent first. Then we will decide what is. For the most part, I will be arguing that there is 5.



First of all, lets look at a world map. This world map will  have no political boundries, but  will be labeled by continents, not counties.


We see seven. This is Wrong.

First of all, Georgia, Azerbijan, and Armenia are in "Asia" .That is common logic. (Not that it matters)


Also, Europe and Asia are ONE continent, Eurasia. What separates Europe and Asia?

1. Ural Mountains
2. Caucasus Moutains
3. A random line near a river (they did not even have the audacity to put it on the river)
4. "Different Cultures"
5. Politics

How would mountains cut 2 different continents? They don't.

Remember, the definition of a continent is large landmasses separated by oceans, or essentially large pieces of land.

My brother aruged that there used to be a techtonic plate there (after all, mountains are not created out of nothing).

-True, but does that make the rockies or the himalayas into another contient. No. Besides, there is a reason why Pangea is a contienent, not seven continents.

BUT BUT India is a contient (also my brother)

-India is too small to be considered a contintent. Yes, it is on a techtonic plate., but it is stuck to Asia.

Europe and Asia are also on the same techtonic plate, the Eurasian Plate.

Some people may still argue the cultural factor, but it does not matter. They are not even that different. They had interactions for THOUSANDS of years. Besides, culture does not have a say in geography or geology.

And politics has no say in geography or geology.


Our world should look like this now-
(sorry for bad paint skills, I was using a ms-paint like program on the mac)


Now we have 6.

Now we have another big problem. North and South America.

Why is it split?

1. Isthmus of Panama
2. Panama Canal
3. Cultural

I already explained #3 above.

Panama Canal is artificial, and does not matter. We are talking about NATURAL things. Also, remember a definition, the Panama Canal is not a large ocean, nor is a small piece of land able to split up 2 continents. Also, they are attached. The Panama Canal is sooo insignificant.

They are also on the same techtonic plate. This makes them the same continent. This is how the world looks like now.-




This is all that there is really. For now. The next part (Part 2), I will discuss why Africa, Austrailia, and Antarctica (No, CGP Grey, they are continents) are continents (I will also tell about how big is a continent).  I will also discuss what continent iceland belongs, what continent Jan Mayen is part of, why the Denmark Pass should be called something else, and what continent New Guinea is part of. I will also talk about the importance of looking at past history of the location of continents and how the world looked like ~10000 years ago (About the beginning of the Holocene Epoch).

Thank you for reading, and signing off,

-BloggingPi