Eurasia

Eurasia is the landmass composed of the continents of Europe and Asia. It can be considered a supercontinent, part of a supercontinent of Africa-Eurasia, or simply a continent. In plate tectonics, the Eurasian Plate includes Europe and most of Asia, but not the Indian subcontinent, the Arabian subcontinent, and the area east of the Cherskiy Range in Sakha. Eurasia is also used in international politics as a neutral way to refer to organizations of or affairs concerning the post-Soviet states.

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Landmass - Europe - Asia - Supercontinent - Africa-Eurasia - Plate tectonics - Eurasian Plate - Indian subcontinent - Arabian subcontinent - Cherskiy Range - Sakha - Post-Soviet states

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Jared Diamond, in his book Guns, Germs and Steel, credits Eurasia's dominance in world history to the east-west extent of Eurasia and its climate zones, and the availability of Eurasian animals and plants suitable for domestication.

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Jared Diamond - Guns, Germs and Steel

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The Silk Road symbolizes trade and cultural exchange linking Eurasian cultures through history and has been an increasingly popular topic. Recent decades have brought forth a view toward a greater Eurasian scope of history, establishing genetic, cultural, and linguistic relationships between European and Asian cultures of antiquity, which had long been thought of as distinct.

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Silk Road - Eurasian scope of history - Linguistic

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Europeans traditionally considered Europe and Asia to be separate continents, with the dividing line placed along the Dardanelles, Bosphorus, Caucasus Mountains, Ural River, and Ural Mountains, and this terminology has spread to the rest of the world, even though Asia contains multiple regions and cultures as large and populous as Europe, and as different and geographically separated from each other as they are from Europe.

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Dardanelles - Bosphorus - Caucasus Mountains - Ural River - Ural Mountains

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