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Eurasia
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:''See also
Asian,
Eurasian,
Afrasian and
Australasian.''
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'''Eurasia''' is the
landmass composed of
Europe and
Asia. Mostly in the
Eastern Hemisphere eastern and
Northern Hemisphere northern hemispheres, Eurasia can be considered a
supercontinent, comprising European and Asian continents, 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.
Europeans, unaware of the extent of Eurasia, traditionally considered Europe and Asia to be separate continents, with the dividing line placed along the
Aegean Sea,
Dardanelles,
Bosphorus,
Black Sea,
Caucasus Mountains,
Caspian Sea,
Ural River, and
Ural Mountains, and this terminology has spread to the rest of the world, even though ''Asia'' contains multiple
subregion regions and cultures as large and populous as Europe, and as different and geographically separated from each other as they are from Europe.
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.
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 history, establishing genetic, cultural, and
linguistic relationships between European and Asian cultures of antiquity, which had long been thought of as distinct.
Other uses
Eurasia was also a
fictional country comprising approximately the same land area in
George Orwell's ''
Nineteen Eighty-Four'', excluding the British Isles (controlled by
Oceania_(fiction) Oceania) and
Eastasia, the latter of which was formed, as the novel says, by an alliance of the states of the region, being the most important couple China and Japan after a 'decade of confused fighting'. India was a contested border zone between ''Eurasia'' and ''Oceania''.
In the game universe of the Earth series (Earth 2140,2150,2160), one of the major factions was the Eurasian Dynasty.
See also
{{Commons|Eurasia}}
*
Palearctic
*
Laurasia, a theoretical supercontinent joining Eurasia and North America.
*
Eurasian Economic Community
*
Neo-Eurasianism
External links
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EurasiaNet
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Articles related to
Eurasia, with a particular focus on areas on the border of
Europe and
Asia (
Baltic region Baltic,
Turkey,
Afghan people Afghan, etc)
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