r/geography • u/Mab_Talks • 1h ago
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u/andasen 1h ago
How are we defining continients for the purposes of this question? By some definitions we have only the four A continents, Afro-euraisa, America's, Australia and Antarctica. In that frame work its Afro-eurasia by a landslide. If we are doing more cultural continents then we can have atleast a dozen continents and it becomes much trickier
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u/nickthetasmaniac 45m ago
For the entirety of human history? Can it be anything but Africa? ‘Human’ history wouldn’t exist if not for Africa…
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u/stormspirit97 12m ago
Africa if you are going back to the entirety of existence of humanity as otherwise humans wouldn't exist at all.
If you are focusing on from when humans settled down and founded agricultural civilizations, I would say Asia if you care about the front loading of early civilizational cradles, which Europe definitely can't match and I don't think Egypt is enough by itself.
Europe is also exceptional for introducing the period of exponential growth in recent centuries which emerged exclusively in Europe and spread from there.
I think it is obviously not the Americas or Oceania, even if North America has become quite important in recent times.
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u/NoVa_BlaZing_ 51m ago
People really saying anything but Europe...
Its Europe
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u/Late_Piano_5030 48m ago
who's gonna tell em
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u/NoVa_BlaZing_ 46m ago
That we originated from Africa? Sure, thats a way to interpret it. But people saying Asia? Come on
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u/Late_Piano_5030 44m ago
Mesopotamia, Persia, China, India, Mongolia, Turkey?
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u/Frosty_Employment171 28m ago
asia minor to you. but to all the asiaphiles, there is egypt.. africa.
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u/Green-Tie-5710 16m ago
Why is Asia “come on” but Europe is obvious? Asia has always had the most people since civilization began, and basically all the important pre-industrial discoveries were made there.
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u/sgeeum 1h ago edited 56m ago
I’m gonna say Asia. I’m using the modern definition of Asia, not the geographical one. The middle east, central asia, south asia, southeast asia, and east asia. Not Eurasia, because that’s basically cheating.
the first cities and organized civilizations sprang up in Asia, and countless human achievements and inventions have come out of Asia - the wheel, written language, paper/printing, gunpowder, the compass, the concept of zero, and steel come to mind.
The only other true contender in my mind is Europe, and it’s indisputable that Europeans spread out and colonized the world and spread their influence, but they all did so with the same initial goal; reach Asia faster.
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u/NkhukuWaMadzi 1h ago
Could be the Americas due to the revolution and spread of foods unknown the to the rest of the world
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