If the Anatolian Peninsula is known as "Asia Minor" why isnt...

[Vasconcelos]

Looks like you have a stake at keeping this discussion under wraps. I understand, you feel like Im desecrating a time honored status quo of belonging to "Europe". To me, its just a landmass, but to you, the concept probably has a more sanctified place in your heart.

It's not an "honoured status quo", it's the way it is named for millenia. If you don't like it kill yourself and argue with the Ancient Greeks in heaven. I'm out of here, only in TA are such stupid threads allowed to go on. No wonder this forum is a troll fest.

[Wadaad]

Oh and Spain was Iberia well before any part of Africa was called by that name since greek and phoenician names predate roman ones.

Thanks...this is all arbitrary semantics and etymology anyway, and there is as much sense in calling Iberia Africa minor as there was for calling Anatolia, Asia minor.

[Vasconcelos]

Thanks...this is all arbitrary semantics and etymology anyway, and there is as much sense in calling Iberia Africa minor as there was for calling Anatolia, Asia minor.

[Maleficent]

First of all, this is obviously a troll thread against Iberians.

Second of all, Iberia is obviously part of Europe. On the other hand, it can be "argued" whether or not Anatolia is geographically part of continental Europe or continental Asia. Plus, there is also the fact that modern-day Anatolia has much less of a quote-on-quote European culture than Iberia does.

[randomguy1235]

First of all, this is obviously a troll thread against Iberians.

Second of all, Iberia is obviously part of Europe. On the other hand, it can be "argued" whether or not Anatolia is geographically part of continental Europe or continental Asia. Plus, there is also the fact that modern-day Anatolia has much less of a quote-on-quote European culture than Iberia does.

Europe is actually part of the Eurasian continental land mass, technically not its own continent. Europe's borders have shifted throughout history

[Damião de Góis]

I think that geographically it makes sense:

[Wadaad]

[Maleficent]

This map right here puts a much more interesting topic up for discussion. The fact that the word "Africa" was originally used by the Romans in ancient times in reference to Northern Africans, a White Caucasoid people, whereas in modern times most people hear the word Africa and automatically think of Sub-Saharan Black Africans. And vice versa, the word "Asia" was also originally used by the Romans in ancient times in reference to Western Asians, also a White Caucasoid people, whereas nowadays most people hear the word Asia and visualize East Asians, a Mongoloid people, or South Asians, a racial hybrid of Caucasoid, Veddoid, and Australoid. Also in hindsight, the words Asia and Africa were never meant to be used continentally. So Wadaad's attempt to be Afrocentric doesn't really work since Africa is really supposed to mean North African.

[Wadaad]

Europe is actually part of the Eurasian continental land mass, technically not its own continent. Europe's borders have shifted throughout history

Indeed...even Roman Africa (aswell as Numidia and at times, Mauritania) was once considered part of Europe, under the label of Western Christendom or the Roman Empire...modern day republics of Libya, Algeria and Tunisia were considered at the least culturally European. Nobody considered St Augustine a moor, for instance.

[Wadaad]

This map right here puts a much more interesting topic up for discussion. The fact that the word "Africa" was originally used by the Romans in ancient times in reference to Northern Africans, a White Caucasoid people, whereas in modern times most people hear the word Africa and automatically think of Sub-Saharan Black Africans. And vice versa, the word "Asia" was also originally used by the Romans in ancient times in reference to Western Asians, also a White Caucasoid people, whereas nowadays most people hear the word Asia and visualize East Asians, a Mongoloid people, or South Asians, a racial hybrid of Caucasoid, Veddoid, and Australoid. Also in hindsight, the words Asia and Africa were never meant to be used continentally. So Wadaad's attempt to be Afrocentric doesn't really work since Africa is really supposed to mean North African.

You have little clue what my attempts are...go hunt for trolls elsewhere