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A big chunk of humanity disagree.  Based on geology, Europe and Asia should be a single continent, but most people distinguish them to be two continents.  [b]Based on history, obviously America is only one continent[/b]. At the very least, that is how Europeans described the new continent.[/quote]

Which history? What history?[/quote]

1492 doesn't ring a bell?  European colonization?  [/quote]

That was the Caribbean islands (which Columbus thought were India), plus North America, plus South America, not to mention the Pacific islands and Australia. Maybe the whole western hemisphere should be one continent?[/quote]

Europeans explorers and cartographers called the newly discovered continent "America". This is an historical fact.  Its European colonization was unique, particularly as the Spanish reached the Western part of what is now the USA the same they reached Florida the same they reached down to Chile and Argentina.  The massacre of the Indigenous population (not replicated in the other places you mentioned) by the Spanish and, to a much greater degree, by the English, among others. .  [/quote]

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