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WHERE IS THE BORDER BETWEEN EUROPE AND ASIA? - 1996

WHERE IS THE BORDER BETWEEN EUROPE AND ASIA? - 1996

Jacek Pałkiewicz
2006-06-18 21:52:37

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2,000 meters above the sea level, the rest of the mountains are considerably lower. Most peaks are flat or rounded. So it's no wonder that the Urals never managed to separate the East from the West, and never created a natural obstacle that could stop the migration of humans.

The notion of Europe as a continent was installed in peoples' minds thousands of years ago. For the Greeks, this part of the world stretched as far as the Black Sea, for the Romans — as far as the Don River and the Azov Sea. In any case, all these territories had been studied by then.

In the Middle Ages the Arabic scholars moved the borders as far as the Volga River and the Kama River. The European geographers went even further and pushed the borders as far as the endless marshes by the River Ob. In the second half of the XVI century Russians believed that the border between Russia and Siberia lies by the foothills of the Kamen Mountains, which was the ancient name for the Urals.

A book was published in 1730 in Stockholm that claimed that the low Ural Mountains with no natural obstacle (physical, climatic, or biological), along with the Ural River, create a solid noticeable barrier that separates Asia from Europe.

The author of this book, a Swedish officer logann von Strallenberg spent eleven years in captivity after Sweden lost to Russia in the battle of Poltava. He had been editing the maps' of Siberia and Central Asia. After he returned home, he wrote a tome called «The Description of the South-East Tataria and Siberia», in which he dedicated twenty pages to the issue of borders.

Russians who are known to be the architects of the Ural Mountains border, often cite Vasily Tatishchev. Tatishchev was a geographer, a historian, the czar's envoy to the Urals, and later the Governor Astrakhan. He conducted his research at the same time as the Swedish scholar.

Tatishchev claimed that the line drawn along the river ...

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This article is okay. There are a few things that are missing though. One example is that you should have an easy to read map with the border line visible so that people know exactly where the border line is. Another example is that a lot of this information is not important and you should really think about making it more interesting like not only talking about the border but talking about the early civilizations in Europe and Asia. I hope you end up changing this article from an article that people are so bored out of their witts they just have to take a 3 hour nap before they could possibly return to reading the horrendous article to an article so exciting you just can't stop reading. I hope you take this comment seriously, that is if you want a bunch of people reading your article.

Juliette F., 2008-10-05 22:38:59