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]] Eurasia is an immense Landmass covering about 53,990,000 Km&2 (or about 10.6%) of the Earth 's surface. Often reckoned as a single Continent , Eurasia comprises the traditional continents of Europe and Asia , concepts which date back to Classical Antiquity and the borders for which are somewhat arbitrary. Eurasia, in turn, is part of the yet larger landmass of Africa-Eurasia . Eurasia has in excess of 4.61 billion people—more than 71% of the world's human population. HISTORY AND CULTURE 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. Over recent decades the idea of a greater Eurasian History has developed with the aim of investigating the genetic, cultural and Linguistic relationships between European and Asian cultures of antiquity. These had long been considered distinct. Eurasia was first Circumnavigated by Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld in 1878 - 79 . GEOLOGY See Also: Laurasia Eurasia formed 325 to 375 million years ago. It formed when Siberia (once an independent continent), Kazakhstania , and Baltica (which was joined to Laurentia (now North America) to form Euramerica ) joined. Chinese cratons collided with Siberia's southern coast. USE OF TERM In modern usage, the term "Eurasian" generally refers to a person of both European and Asian parentage, especially in new world countries such as the United States and Australia . Located primarily in the Eastern and Northern Hemispheres , Eurasia is considered a Supercontinent , part of the supercontinent of Africa-Eurasia or simply a continent in its own right. In Plate Tectonics , the Eurasian Plate includes Europe and most of Asia but not the Indian Subcontinent , the Arabian Peninsula or the area of the Russian Far East east of the Chersky Range . ''Eurasia'' is also sometimes used in Geopolitics as a neutral way to refer to organizations of or affairs concerning the Post-Soviet States , in particular Russia , the Central Asia n republics, and the Transcaucasian republics. Europeans traditionally considered Europe and Asia to be separate continents, with the dividing line placed along the Aegean Sea , Dardanelles , Sea Of Marmara , Bosporus , 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 Regions and cultures as large and populous as Europe, and as different and geographically separated from each other as they are from Europe. From a modern perspective in scientific circles people generally prefer to subsume Europe and Asia into Eurasia. USE IN FICTION Eurasia is a Fictional Country , State or Supranational entity appearing in several works of fantasy, literature and science fiction, including books, movies, television series and video games:
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