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Originally Posted by ProfCrash
I thought that the continents were defined by the tectonic plates that they were on and that there were cases of land borders that crossed multiple plates. So the continent of Europe is on a different plate then the continent of Asia.
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No, Europe and Asia are on the same tectonic plate - the appropriately-named "Eurasian Plate". Their conventional separation into two continents is historic, going back to to Ancient Greek times at least. Herodotus, in his "Histories" (published in the mid 5th century BC) describes the three continents of Europe, Asia, and Africa which were known to him.