Arabia: A Seperate Continent?

Zeldar155

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Just a thought I had... Since Europe is considered a seperate continent from Asia for mostly cultural reasons and not geological:

Would a world where Arabia was the seat of modern civilization, or where most the most advanced nations existed, (let's not get into discussion on how that would happen) consider Arabia a seperate continent from Europe and Asia for cultural reasons too?
 

Mookie

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Just a thought I had... Since Europe is considered a seperate continent from Asia for mostly cultural reasons and not geological:

Would a world where Arabia was the seat of modern civilization, or where most the most advanced nations existed, (let's not get into discussion on how that would happen) consider Arabia a seperate continent from Europe and Asia for cultural reasons too?

Arabia on itself... nope
But area from Bosphorus to Caucasus, then over to Indus river and to the west to Morrocco. That could be.
 
There's no easy dividing line, though: The Greeks, who invented the Europe/Asia division in the first place, at least had the Aegean & Black Seas to use even though they might initially have been a bit vague about where to draw the line north after that...
 
There's no easy dividing line, though: The Greeks, who invented the Europe/Asia division in the first place, at least had the Aegean & Black Seas to use even though they might initially have been a bit vague about where to draw the line north after that...

I'd imagine that an Arabia would be everything from the Sinai desert in the west to the Euphrates and Tigris in the east. The northern border would probably have to be man made, though.

An Islamic world "Ummah" would be everything north of the Sahara in Africa, east of the Bosporus and west of the Indus.
 
There's no easy dividing line, though: The Greeks, who invented the Europe/Asia division in the first place, at least had the Aegean & Black Seas to use even though they might initially have been a bit vague about where to draw the line north after that...

There was quite a consensus about that line being the Don, although Herodotus put it on the Rioni River in present Georgia.
 
There was quite a consensus about that line being the Don, although Herodotus put it on the Rioni River in present Georgia.

If a river is suitable then it's potentially very easy, Ganges river in the east, sinai/Aegean sea in the east, and the northern borders can be decided later (I mean it's not like the north eastern border between asia and Europe isn't also arbitrary).
 
If a river is suitable then it's potentially very easy, Ganges river in the east, sinai/Aegean sea in the east, and the northern borders can be decided later (I mean it's not like the north eastern border between asia and Europe isn't also arbitrary).

The Ganges? That's the weirdest boundary for "Arabia" possible since it'd include Persia and half of North India, neither of.which are Arabian
 
There's no easy dividing line, though: The Greeks, who invented the Europe/Asia division in the first place, at least had the Aegean & Black Seas to use even though they might initially have been a bit vague about where to draw the line north after that...


From this core area:
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I'd go no further west into Africa than the Sinai Peninsula for the Arabian Continent. I'd go north and include the Levant (today's Israel, Jordan, Syria & Lebanon; perhaps Cyprus as well, but maybe not). I'd also Include Mesopotamia (ie. Iraq's Tigris–Euphrates river system) and the Anatolia Peninsula (in TTL not called Asia Minor; perhaps the Armenian highlands as well, but maybe not).
 
I think Arabia could definitely work as a 'continent': it's culturally distinct from the rest of Eurasia and surrounded by sea except for the Sinai, Caucasus and Persia 'isthmuses' (stretching the definition of the word a bit) - which is less land than connects Europe and Asia.

Could the 'triple continent' of Europe-Arabia-Asia be called Eurabisia?
 
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