Every Continent's Name Explained

Ew, ads! Want to see this without ads, earlier, along with exclusive content? Go to https://nebula.tv/videos/cogito-how-did-the-continents-get-their-names 240 million years ago there was one giant mega-continent called Pangaea. Things were simpler then, you could walk from South Africa to Greenland and Switzerland had tropical beaches. But then Pangea broke up and things are complicated. Today we have 7 continents or 5 or if you're really cool 4, it mostly depends on what language you speak and what century it is. Regardless of how many there are, they all have names. But what is an Africa? What does Asia mean? And is Australia a filthy name thief? Well, Let's Find Out. Pangaea map from here https://www.earthbyte.org/paleomap-paleoatlas-for-gplates/ IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO CONTRIBUTE TO MY PATREON PLEASE SEE HERE. ​​https://www.patreon.com/CogitoEdu Follow me on twitter https://twitter.com/CogitoEdu​​ Or Reddit r/cogitoedu Or Facebook @CogitoYT MERCHANDISE teespring.com/stores/cogito-store​ Go checkout https://nebula.app/cogito Who Are The Sami People? | https://youtu.be/_6sQPJvGaO0 What Is Islam? | https://youtu.be/XlvEymU-S4o​ Who Are The Māori People Of New Zealand? | https://youtu.be/Nw81to_XmXM What Is Taoism? | https://youtu.be/U6hslRjGaww What Is A Cult? https://youtu.be/QUHNKCkXYes​​ History Of Tea | https://youtu.be/6S0hlv5sUbw​​ What Was The Indus Valley Civilisation? | https://youtu.be/rlONwxT9Nlc​​ What Is Judaism | https://youtu.be/0VAylWxDQfk​​ Who Are The San Bushmen? | https://youtu.be/1oQ5Jd7p2aY​​ What Is Zoroastrianism? | https://youtu.be/hl9QgeHdKYk What Is Hinduism? https://youtu.be/xlBEEuYIWwY​​ What Is Sikhism? https://youtu.be/L-1UAORcX4c​​ Sources and Further Reading: The Myth of Continents: A Critique of Metageography, by Martin W. Lewis and Kären Wigen A Greek-English Lexicon by Scott Liddell Terra Cognita The Mental Discovery of America - Eviatar Zerubavel Robert Steven Paul Beekes, Lucien van Beek - Etymological Dictionary of Greek (vols. 1 & 2) West, Martin Litchfield - Indo-European poetry and myth Encyclopedia of Geography - Barney Warf https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.04.0029%3Atext%3Dcomm%3Apoem%3D3 CALLINUS, Testimonia http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0198%3Abook%3D14%3Achapter%3D1%3Asection%3D4 The History of Herodotus https://www.sacred-texts.com/cla/hh/hh4040.htm http://www.radicalcartography.net/?etymomap Kadmos and Europa, and the Phoenicians, Robert S. P Beekes https://www.robertbeekes.nl/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/b118.pdf Documents in Mycenaean Greek by Michael Ventris, John Chadwick https://archive.org/stream/in.ernet.dli.2015.70035/2015.70035.Documents-In-Mycenaean-Greek_djvu.txt THE NAMING OF AMERICA: FRAGMENTS WE'VE SHORED AGAINST OURSELVES BY JONATHAN COHEN https://www.jonathancohenweb.com/america.html https://www.jonathancohenweb.com/marcou-paper-1890.pdf https://www.jonathancohenweb.com/Inter_America-1918.pdf https://www.jonathancohenweb.com/marcou-1.html https://web.archive.org/web/20190627022921/http://michel-desfayes.org/namesofcountries.html https://archive.org/stream/cosmographiaeint00walduoft/cosmographiaeint00walduoft_djvu.txt Full text of "The Cosmographiae introductio of Martin Waldseemülle, followed by The four voyages of Amerigo Vespucci, with their translation into English https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-waldseemuller-map-charting-the-new-world-148815355/?c=y&page=1 “The Berbers.” Journal of the Royal African Society, vol. 2. Geo. Babington Michell. https://zenodo.org/record/1782363 Hellenosemitica: An Ethnic and Cultural Study in West Semitic Impact on Mycenaean Greece by Michael C. Astour https://books.google.nl/books?id=NMkUAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA128&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false The Homeric Hymn to Apollo https://chs.harvard.edu/chapter/ch-13-the-homeric-hymn-to-apollo-and-the-text-of-iliad-11/ https://www.gns.cri.nz/Home/News-and-Events/What-s-new/The-origin-and-meaning-of-the-name-Te-Riu-a-Maui-Zealandia MAPS: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c0/Waldseemuller_map_2.jpg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Anaximander_world_map-en.svg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hecataeus_of_Miletus#/media/File:Hecataeus_world_map-en.svg #Geography​​ #History #Etymology ​​​​ Music by Epidemic Sound: https://epidemicsound.com/creator​​ Video/Images provided by Getty Images, AP Archive and Archive.org