How Did The Continents Get Their Names?
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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.
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"then zues layed eyes on her and fell in love" how 90% of greek myths start
actually 90% of them start with aphrodite being a dick and shooting him with her arrow, causing him to fall in love, much to his own humiliation.
@@HaydenPlaysGames ahh damn, ok so its 90% right
"fall in love" is a strange word for "rape".
@@micha2909 nah thats step 2 bro
@@tylertibbs158 What's step 3?
Can we take a moment to appreciate Cogito's animations? They are getting better and better. Absolutely loved those greek styled-ones.
It really is, it's awesome to see this channel grow and get better.
Thank you. I've been trying to improve them as much as can and I'm glad you're enjoying them
Skill share baby!
@@CogitoEdu Your pronunciation of "Nicaragua" was equally impressive to this Spanish-speaker.
I spend large parts of each year in Uruguay so I hope my Spanish pronunciation is decent 😅
Australians are called Ausies...If the continent had remained New Holland, they'd be called Hollies...there is a group formed in the 1960's called The Hollies...the common myth is that they were named after Buddy Holly, but the more logical explanation is that the name is a sly reference to Australia's original European name...
Man, I am so good at this etymology thing
Its a Non cognate, The Hollies where Brits.
I can only say that Buddy Holly rocks
Australia is not a continent ffs Oceania is
misspelled Holley carburator.
Fr I’m from Australia
2:28
As a moroccan Amazigh, I can approve that we still use the word "ifri" in it's intended meaning "cave" in Tamazight language.
How interesting!
that was correct but he got it wrong that ibn kaludn was a bereber
Yeah my bad
@@MohamedRamadan-qi4hl
There is always a room for human error 😅.
As far as I know, Ibn Khaldun is a Tunisian with arabic ancestry.
@@yan_afrukh you are correct he can trace his descent all the way back to ymin and his family lived for a long time in al andlus so some Spanish would be there to and he was born in Tunisia so he might be considered partial amazhg
@ꅏꑀꁲꈜꑀ꒒ ibn kaludn family did not originate from magrib it was from al andlus and before this his family came from ymin
Australia is more known as Oceania when talking about the continent. Australia refers to the Country, but Oceania refers to both Australia and the Islands in Melanesia, Micronesia and Polynesia.
Not true. Oceania is a geopolitical region not a continent. The actual continent is Australia.
@@jsworpin Yes, technically the Country of Australia is also it's own Continent -- however that would logically imply that New Zealand and all of the South Pacific Islands are not part of a Continent which makes no sense. So Oceania is the Ocean continent that covers 4 regions: Australasia (which includes Papua New Guinea & New Zealand), Melanesia, Micronesia, and Polynesia,
@@alexandercampbell7903 why does it ‘make no sense’ to say the pacific islands are not part of a continent? The other continents make sense for cultural and political reasons, shared borders etc. these then include some islands as belonging to countries in the continent, or part of the tectonic plate. This doesn’t apply to the pacific islands. Why group them with Australia as a ‘continent’. Might as well group them on their own.
@@jsworpin And why does it not make sense for islands to be part of an Island Continent shared with Australia.? Land is connected via Underwater. For land not to be connected to part of a Continent does not feel whole or correct. Maybe it is irrational, but it does not feel right for Countries not to be part of a Continent; and set adrift as lonely islands my butt-part Friend. Oceania is an Ocean Continent that encompasses 4 regions of the South Pacific; including the continent nation of Australia. Australia is a sub-continent encompassed by the larger ocean continent of Oceania. That is reasonable place to leave this conversation.
@@alexandercampbell7903 “And why does it not make sense for islands to be part of an Island Continent shared with Australia.?”
They have nothing uniting them. Not politically, historically or culturally. That’s why it makes no sense.
“Land is connected via Underwater.” Obviously, but essential meaningless in this conversation.
“For land not to be connected to part of a Continent does not feel whole or correct. Maybe it is irrational, but it does not feel right for Countries not to be part of a Continent; and set adrift as lonely islands my butt-part Friend.”
What is it about this magic idea of continent that you feel so strongly about. The whole concept is arbitrary. For example the continent of Europe makes no sense, geographically.
“Oceania is an Ocean Continent that encompasses 4 regions of the South Pacific; including the continent nation of Australia. Australia is a sub-continent encompassed by the larger continent of Oceania. That is reasonable place to leave this conversation.”
Why not included the pacific islands with Antarctica? That makes as much sense as Australia. We’ll agree to disagree on what is reasonable.
I remember being thaught in school a continent called "Oceania", not "Australia"
Same here
That’s not the continent, that’s the region.
@@cowboydoggo6168 That's the continent in all romanic languages
Yeah I have a theory that some one had Chinese whispers. Oceania was originally called Australasia which sounds like Australia so people just called it Australia.
@@bradenleonhart5205 Those are completely different regions…
3 easy steps to get antartica to be called penguinia
1. draw a map of antartica
2. call it penguinia
3. destroy all civilization
4. tell the rest of humanity to call it penguinia because it's funny
@ꅏꑀꁲꈜꑀ꒒ just report it as unwanted commercial spam. Even I've my channel but I'm not bothering everyone like this.
There's no need to destroy all civilization, just conquer it. If you're in charge, you make the rules.
You mean 'tree easy steps
"3 easy steps" is it because drawing is hard?
There's 4 steps listed.....😂 But I like your idea.
This was a great video! The animations fit perfectly with the narrative - especially love the use of shadow over as-of-yet "undiscovered" geography to show the limits of contemporary European understanding. Very effective for understanding these name origins, which require grasping the limits of knowledge during each time period. Well done!
Thanks! Glad to see it came across like I wanted it too 🙂
This! A thousand times, this. Brilliant.
6:30 Oddly enough 'cowface' is an actual surname here in my State of Maharashtra & the word for it in my language Marathi is गायतोंडे & is pronounced as 'gaaytonde' ('gaay' means cow, & 'tonde' is from 'tond' which means face). Now I'm thinking the history of this surname may be as a complement & not ridicule to whomever it was first given as a name.
Awesome video, amazing info. History behind America's name is interesting, used to think it's named after some ship that was on that voyage of Columbus.
Listened this surname,.
so, many times.
And in bollywood movies also.
Gay tonde . . . hehe gay
@@anoldtimer Where in my comment you read that word?
@@anoldtimer ???? Here gay ( ગાય) means cow
@@bhupeshgurjar In Marathi the surname is actually spelled as "Gaitonde" so the word gay isn't even written in it.
He's probably some kid coz the comment appears very childish.
I asked my Historical Maps professor this question. She couldn’t answer this question and thought my question was stupid. I feel so good that other people wonder about this as well :)
There no dumb questions only dumb answers.
She should be fire for that tbh.
😆💜
She thought it was "stupid" because she couldn't fathom that there could be a question (related to what she teaches) that she couldn't answer. There are no dumb questions, your teacher just has a lot of pride.
Why would it be stupid to know something that helps us understand world history lol. Then I guess for her it's also stupid to ask why the countries have the name they have
There's two continents:
Afro-Eurasiamerica
Antarctica
Or just one:
Afro-Eurasiamerico-Austro-Antarctica
You mean 'disparated Pangea'?
Oceania: *Am i a joke to you?*
Australia
You mean Pengunia?
It's also very interesting that on romance Languages we replace Asutralia with Oceania across the board. Are there more language groups with such a big difference in naming conventions?
It's not just that a simple matter of the same continent having different names in different languages. The same Oceania that is recognized as a continent in some places is also recognized as existing by the US and other English speaking countries, and they call it "Oceania" as well. The difference is that according to their convention "Oceania" is not a continent at all, rather it is a geographical region. Instead what they consider a continent is just a small part of Oceania and they call it Australia, even though that "Australia" continent includes more land than the country of the same name (so that leads to the confusion that Australia is both a continent and a country, when they are two distinct entities with the same name).
Not Linguistic, but here we call country Australia simply as Australia and when we talk about continent we usually tend to call it Australia, but on most maps and geographical books it's called Australia and Oceania, meaning that those Islands are counted as subcontinent and two subcontinents of Oceania and of Australia make one Continent. Tho, usually in common use Oceania part is completely skipped.
Is because Terra Australis was a small continent, and the other isles were just to small to be calle continents, so we put together Polinesia, Melanesia, Micronesia, Tasmania and Australia(or Australasia), and BOOM, Oceania.
Russian, as an Indo-european language has the same
In Spanish north and South America are considered one, and to be honest it makes sense, like if north and South America should be different, then they shouldn’t be called north AMERICA and south AMERICA and instead say different names like what Africa, Europe, and Asia did
"Hey! Come to Brazil!" really made my day 😄 I wonder if the Brazilians know that they've become a meme 😅
We do! 🤣
And now we use this phrase mostly as a joke (although we would be very happy if people took it seriously and just came to Brazil).
@@RafaelSCalsaverini hahaha great to hear 😊👍 I'd really like to visit one of these days 🙂
You underestimate our abillity to learn about memes.
YOURE GOING TO BRASIL
Of course, and we loved that.
I like the names Arctic and Antarctic, they very helpfully remind us which of the poles has the polar bears and which one doesn't.
And which one has ants🐜
Continents: America, Europe, Africa, Asia, Oceanis (the 5 rings of the Olympic flag) and Antarctica.
Awesome video. :)
8:45
"Ok , So Europe was a mess "
Lol, I am dead 😂
Europe's history in a nutshell
@@kartikpoojari7066 *world history
Modern Europeans think that Indians worshiping Cows is weird but Ancient Europeans probably revered the Cow as sacred animal and used "Cowface" as a compliment!
Being with cow reduces stress
In ancient india, arabs, Europeans, American (modern day) used to be tribe, probably some Hinduism spread their, ut then jesus and mohammad came with some different thinking, and converted that tribe by illogical unscientific thoughts is that simple
@@vitaminprotein2217 None of this groups lived in ancient India!
„and converted that tribe by illogical unscientific thoughts is that simple”
There is no diference betwen the level of logic and science in Hinduism, Cristianity and Islam.
And Hinduism didnt exist before 2000 BC.
Ancient Egiptian and Mesopotamian religions predate it.
@@laurentiuvladutmanea3622 There is much difference between logic of Hinduism and Monotheistic religions(Islam, Christianity)
No they just think the use of cow dung and urine to cure COVID‐19 in India as weird.
8:52 I'm berber and we still speak tamazight, the word IFRI (the plural is IFRANE) indeed means: the cave.
and Africa is also called IFRIQIA, and this in my opinion, is more accurate.
We got salted so hard that we're still feeling salty.
BTW, Ifri is a singular cave. While Ifran means multiple caves.
Of what I've heard Asia is still used as a name for girls in Greece(probably) and elsewhere and it means "sunrise", not so sure about Europa and Libya though. Though it is said that Europe may come from a Akkadian word "Erebu" meaning sunset. Which would be kinda cool as both of the continents got the name from eachother in perspective of where the sun was.
Im from pakistan and I had a class mate name Asia.
In italy is also used 🤷♂️
I wonder if the meaning of "sunrise" came after the name of the continent? (It's to the East of Greece, after all.)
@@iloveprivacy8167 Hey! I major in History and we learned that the Phoenicians (modern-day Libanon) were on the sea and saw the sun go down in the West (Greece) and called it 'Eureb' and they saw the sunrise in the East (Western-Turkey, so they called that 'Asu'. Eureb meaning sunset and Asu meaning sunrise. That's also why the Bosporus in Istanbul is to this day the division between Asia and Europe.
Also still in use in Tunisia, proobably goes back to the days of carthage as well
Summary Notes:
• The word Asia originated from the Ancient Greek word Ἀσία, first attributed to Herodotus (about 440 BCE) in reference to Anatolia or to the Persian Empire, in contrast to Greece and Egypt. It originally was just a name for the east bank of the Aegean Sea, an area known to the Hittites as Assuwa.
• Mainly, The name Europe comes from the Latin Europa, which in turn derives from the Greek Εὐρώπη, from εὐρύς eurys "wide" and ὤψ ops "face" (PIE *wer-, "broad" *okw-, "eye"). This is the most common speculation.
• Africa - it is derived from the Roman name for a tribe living in the northern reaches of Tunisia, believed to possibly be the Berber people. The Romans variously named these people 'Afri', 'Afer' and 'Ifir'.
• America is named after Amerigo Vespucci, the Italian explorer who set forth the then revolutionary concept that the lands that Christopher Columbus sailed to in 1492 were part of a separate continent. But, it could also be named after a group of mountains with a similar name found in Nicaragua where Columbus is thought to have landed!
• The name Australia derives from Latin australis meaning southern, and dates back to 2nd century legends of an "unknown southern land" (that is terra australis incognita). The explorer Matthew Flinders named the land Terra Australis, which was later abbreviated to the current form.
• The name Antarctica is the romanised version of the Greek compound word ἀνταρκτική (antarktiké), feminine of ἀνταρκτικός (antarktikós), meaning "opposite to the Arctic", "opposite to the north". Aristotle wrote in his book Meteorology about an Antarctic region in c. 350 BC.
All the names come from 2 countries
In same places Australia also called as "Oceania". Oceania is the feminine of the greek name Oceanus "Ωκεανός". Oceanus(Greek god, father of all rivers) is the son of Uranus and Rhea in greek mythology.
Reporting directly from the land of the Afri :D
I am happy that you showed the actual most probable origin of the word, instead of showing the "theory" that it originated from a word that meant "dust"...
Tounsi?
I want to live in the universe where America was Vespuccia. Just imagine all the insults and nicknames other countries would give to those from the Vespuccias
It’s unbelievable that even in 2021, people from the Old World are still realizing that the word ‘America’ originally belongs to the whole New World and not the United States of America. When I was in China, when I said that I come from “South America” they used to think that I was from “Southern US”. My gosh 🤦♂️
what
True. USA turned the name "America" into the name of the country for the rest of the world nowadays instead of the whole continent. Like, the world map that used "America" for the first time called Universalis Cosmographia (1507) referred as America the whole continent and put this name where South America is now, and this happened 269 years BEFORE USA got "america" in its name. So, the whole continent was being called America long before and for much longer.
And on Hondius world map (1641) we see "America" written on its North and South part, but it doesn't divide it into two continents as the USA people do.
Another weird stuff that USA people do is to say that Colombus discovered their country, but he discovered Bahamas, and the first European that went to USA continental landmass was the spanish Juan Ponce de León that named Florida.
So the problem is not only dividing it into 2 continents, but erasing the history and influence of the rest of the Americans (which are the Mexicans, Peruvians, Argentines, Brazilians, Colombians, etc). If you are in Asia and say "I'm going to America" it's annoying that everyone will think that you're going to USA instead of any other country of the America continent.
Asia is so big, and USA doesn't divide it into more continents, but to make them more special and unique they wanted to separate themselves from the rest of America.
I thought Americans (USofAians) started that
@@FallenLight0 was it not Vikings?
Or Native Americans crossing he Boering Straight during the ice age?
@@jorgepeterbarton Native Americans crossing the Boering Straight crossed there so long ago that they weren't European at that time. Because with this argument we should call all humans Africans since humans came from Africa.
And Juan Ponce de Leon was the first one to try an expressive colonization, bringing a lot of people to try to make a base there.
A well-researched, well-written, and approachable video. Thank you!
Not so well researched is Australia is called a continent.
Not well researched also is the "salt on carthage" claim. This never happened. Historians now agree it is false.
Bruh, the Australian and Antarctica explanation was amazing, thank you
So glad to see your new video. Your animated and visualized story telling made me addicted to this channel. Make much more videos like this.
Thank you so much 😀
Interesting. The more we discover, more confusing it gets.
Also, I cannot help but marvel at the awesomeness of ancient Greek and Latin discovers/adventurers.
It's pretty amazing how far the Greeks got, they settled as far west as Iberia, Morocco, and possibly even the Canary islands and as far East as India, and they even explored Scandinavia and China. There's also some Evidence they may have sailed around Africa to reach the Indian Ocean or the Red Sea and although unconfirmed there's some evidence of amphora (clay greek pots/jugs) in Brazil. There's also a theory that the Terra Cotta warriors were built using Greek techniques and the famous Chinese Yin-Yang symbol actually appeared in Greece first and there are descriptions in ancient China of what appeared to be hopilites. The Romans built on these trade networks and traded alot with China, India, and roman coins have even been discovered in Japan.
I like the similarities between the Irish and Jamaican accents like pronouncing “th” as “t”.
Cogito, start a petition to rename Antarctica to Penguinia. I will vote for it.
The maps animation is super satisfying.
Fantastic video, truly enjoyed it! As for the next upcoming videos, my Prediction is either: What is ✝Christianity, ⛩Shintoism, 水Confucianism or Baha’i Faith (as you’ve already created videos for ☪Islam, ॐHinduism, ☸️Buddhism, ☬Sikhism, ✡︎Judaism, ☯Taoism, Jainism, and Zoroastrianism). Good Luck :)
i was pleasantly surprised by the quality of this video. pretty information dense, no awful corny jokes, good animation, good research. instantly subscribed
I like how Antartica's name is not even related but still has no other question from where it came from like Europe or America
Antarctica name makes perfect sense, it's opposite of Arctica. The Arctic has bears, the Antarctic does not have bears.
Always wondered how Africa got its name with so many ethnicities
This is so cool I’m beyond the moon , I come from modern day Libya and I knew that in old times the whole region was called Libya but I didn’t know that Africa comes from ifri, I’m also Berber (amazigh) and come from a village in Libya called yefren which is the plural of ifrin, the village is said to be named like that because of the caves and a possibility that the people are descendants of bani irfan just like you said 😃😁 now I kind of feel super cool 😂
Penguinia sounds absolutely lit
It brings respect to the penguins - penguins are wicked (they have a cute waddle)
A continent named after an animal... ummm yes please
Penguinia just sounds like a fun water park
probably the other way round - the bird is named after the land as usual
Keep it quiet.
We don’t want our Arab brothers changing the name of a luxurious water theme park in Abu Dhabi, Yas Island.
So the Greeks called a small piece of land as Asia, and now Chinese, Indians, Koreans, Afghans, Uzbekis, Thais, Japanese are called called Asians. Wow!
I wonder, do East Asians call Asia... Asia?
Geographically Asians but vastly different from each other from region to region.
The term Asian is used for people with mongoloid features, it's not used for people of any specific nationality
In Spanish, Australia (continent) is called Oceania, that comes from the spanish word: Océano, that means ocean.
Actually is another name from Greek mythology. Oceania is the feminine of the greek name Oceanus "Ωκεανός". Oceanus(means: father of all rivers) was a Titan and is the son of Uranus and Gaia in greek mythology. Herodotus(Greek Historian) was the first who give the name "ocean" in the sense of a very large sea area.
That's because Australia is not continent and is wrong. It's not just in Spanish, it's to everyone that knows correct geography.
No one cares
Hey Cogito, idk if you'll read this but you're videos are amazing and so informative. I started watching due to the Great videos about religions but stayed for the amazing video format, quality and topics. Keep it up !!
I just discovered this channel and I became a subscriber. Like really wow, I get illustrated and amused at the same time, perfect balance going on here!! I absolutely love the animations, Cogito, you sure can teach us some history without it being tedious nor boring! Thank you!!!! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻💕
Idk while I like Penguinia, Antarctica is pretty fitting too. You could translate that to without bear right?
Just wanted to say how much I love and appreciate your videos. I teach history/social studies to 11-13 year olds in Florence, Alabama, USA and your videos have helped me and my students learn so much, especially about world religious and ancient civilizations. I feel like I saw in one of your videos that you take suggestions (if not, apologies), but I'd love to see a video on the illegal United States overthrow of Queen Liliuokalani of Hawaii. I'm going over it with my 6th graders tomorrow and reading up on it made me big sad that I was never taught the fine details as a kid to know how truly messed up it was. Thanks so much for all that you do!
Thank you, I'm really happy to hear the you enjoy the videos and that you find them useful! We've been thinking about doing some videos on Hawaii so thanks for the suggestion, it really helps us to know that people want to see those kinds of videos.
Ok 0pp
So I totally want to play a video game where the characters are Cogito characters. Just saying.
Maybe one were both our character types battle it out 😁
There's another theory about how America got its name that comes from the man who funded the voyage of John Cabot in 1497. His name was Richard Amerike (that's the anglicized version of "ap Meurig" in Welsh, which means 'Son of Meuric', a name which is still popular in Wales today). Cabot followed the naming pattern of calling it after a patron, and using the man's surname. The name became widely known among seamen, many of whom already were aware that there was land in that direction (there are accounts of Newfoundland natives speaking English already when early explorers began to map the region after it was first discovered. They apparently had had contact with fishing vessels that had discovered the region's cod nurseries). So the name spread rapidly through the merchant sailors and fishermen of western Europe.
So either it was because of Colombo, Vespucci or Caboto, America owes its name to Italy.
America got it name of the people of the land Amarakus not from Europe u land of south America before European
Nope, Spaniards were already in the americas before any anglos and there were names for the landmass and new territories before there were any british or french settler in the americas.
@@ericktellez7632 True. USA people say that Colombus discovered their country, but he discovered Bahamas, and the first European that went to USA continental landmass was the spanish Juan Ponce de León that named Florida.
@@nicolascarpa638 no it was that or from the place literally pronounced a-meh-ri-keh the Amerrique mountains named by the indigenous Mayan people. That is not only the closest sounding and spelling, but also the most accurate in the colonization timeline.
What a co incidence today i was wondering why haven't cogito uploaded his new video yet and at night it came !!
Hi Harshit remember me 😊😀
@@khosrowanushirwan7591 yup . Abhijit Chavda Viewer :)
@@harshit2.02 So that's how you got to know about that queen right? From Cogito's Tamizh video?
Very intriguing indeed, now the UN categorize Continents with their tectonic plates to claim sovereignty. Very interesting of the history behind the names and how continents have varying definitions depends which you ask honestly. For me I was told Oceania was a continent solely because of the technical plate but other refer it as a region just like how many refer the Middle-East as a region despite being in Asia Minor.
Asia Minor though is also a region. It is just simply Asia. India can be referred to as the Indian subcontinent. It is Asia. South Asia whereas Vietnam area is Southeast Asia.
It was a supper fun video, and I've learned from it more than I expected, particularly from the part about America.
I love how all of those old Indo-European Goddess names basically translate into 'Broad One' AKA Thicc
I'M DEAD. 💀💀💀💀
Indo-European Goddesses were a bunch of broads.
They are men of culture
Wow!! I wasn’t expecting to learn anything new coming here, but if the “America” really comes from a native origin and not from an European guy, this makes me feel so much better for the name of our continent. Thank you man!!
Porque nativo?
@@lemonlimee2251 Porque a outra opção é um europeu. Ainda bem que não é.
Oceania is the feminine of the greek name Oceanus "Ωκεανός". Oceanus(means: the father of all rivers) is the son of Uranus(Sky) and Gaia(Earth) in greek mythology. Herodotus(Greek Historian) was the first who give the name "ocean" in the sense of a very large sea area.
Justice for Pengunia
Its name was stolen by Australia so its only fair to give them a better more Badass Name
you already have Antarctica, so, deal with it.
Hello! just wondering, where did you find the painting of Europa of Macedon in minute 5:33 ? it is super rare to find a portrait of her and I'm intrigued. Awesome video!!
Stopping at :55 . I couldn't help it, but I love your accent. Especially the way you say filthy. ❤❤
Oh sweet. I love watching Cogito’s videos
Very interesting and very well done, as always.
I mean, you could argue that Antartica translates to "The Land furthest from bears" and you know, that's some damn good info to know...
Antartica being bearless does kinda fit tho, important distinction if you want to avoid getting eaten
I love that he modeled his Herodotus after the Assassin's Creed version.
other theory for Africa (which I think can be more accurate), it may have been came from Haferca or in modern prononciation Taferka which may have been a name given to a locality back then, maybe a city or a village or something.
we still use the word Taferka to talk about big, fertile well located lands, in our daily speaking.
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You didn't mention anything about the name Oceania. I was taught Australia was just a country in Oceania
You were taught correctly, they just don't know geography.
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That was some segue into the second skillshare promo. Appreciated.
That was impressive tbf
The fact the name Asia first existed in Turkey is ironic since Turkey is having its own identity crisis on either they are Asian or European
Hey Cogito! I'm super interested in Greece before the arrival of the Indo-European Greeks, in particular Minoans and the not-so-indigenous Myceneans, linear A and linear B scripts, the Hellene/Pelasgian divide, what the Ancient Greeks knew of their ancestors, Homer, Troy and how it was discovered by Heinrich Schliemann etc. If you could please cover that that would be absolutely amazing! Thoroughly enjoyed this episode! This channel always teaches me something new... like I really like the light rabbit holes we always fall down into, instead of regurgitating big paragraphs of well-known high school knowledge. Like we all know classical Greece, but how the hell did it become what it is? Surely there was a process from those nomadic wheel usin warriors to these amazing city states. What happened to the Hittites and the Luwians? What about the farmers from the near east predating the Yamnaya? For real tho, who the hell were Minoans!??? HOW??
You know what, speaking of Indo-European, why don't you just do an episode on them like you did on the Sami!? That would also be amazing!
Vespucci is too cute with the hands😆
However, while the derivation of America from Amerigo Vespucci is attested at the time, those later theories involving the Amerique mountains (how would they even know how long that name existed among the natives?) only appears much later, probably derived from some craze for novelty.
And this is a weird coincidence, something is shady about this Amerrique theory. How Amerigo and Amerrique has names so close to the point the name of the continent could come from either of them?
Take the name of the states as an example. how many of them come from the languages of the natives? what makes you think that this would not be possible for the rest of the continent?
@@ejokurirulezz Oh, it's possible. But in this the derivation from Vespucci is attested while anything else is later speculation. You also have many names derived from European names (Carolina, New York Pennsylvania)
The fact you dont have over a million subs is just baffling. Your work is fantastic
Also Hera the wife of Zeus is also described as cow-eyed.
12:56 I swear every English speaking region says "pattern" in a very different way
I pronounce it as "pah-tern
so you're saying there's no pattern to it
I wish if someone would have been researched that well and taught me everything like the way Cogito's does, My whole reality would have been different... Anyways I love to watch their videos and share it with my nices and nephews for their better understanding 💕 Much love from India 🍀
Europa meaning far-seeing makes sense because the regions of Thessaly and Macedonia that were included in the Europa name are the only regions in the ancient greek mainland that had flat lands. Most of Greece is mountainous. So Thessaly and Macedonia being the only greek regions with flat lands where you can see far (at that time), makes sense to be called far-seeing lands (Europa).
very cool to learn that the continent europe was most likely named after the phoenician princess Europa. i am lebanese and we are descendants of phoenician/canaanites
Australia is a country. Oceania is the name for continent. Oceania from Ocean derives from Greek Okeanos which was also god in Greek mythology
In English, the continent is generally called Australia, with Oceania being a region around it.
@@Lagiacrus1996 Which makes more sense because why would a region of mostly water and no shared continental plate be a Continent
I love how there is the big American and Afro-Eurasia and then there’s Australia
Every family has a black sheep!
Love the video, but several of my Tamazight friends VERY MUCH don't like the name "Berber", as it means "Barbarian". I'm sure this varies, as some indigenous people are okay with being called "indians" or "redskins" and there are black people who don't mind when their friends call them a typically racially charged name, but I wouldn't say that's a good rule of thumb, or a good precedent.
Also, for all who read this, eskimo means "raw meat eaters" and "Caribbean" comes from a world meaning cannibal. Kinda crazy how that weird racist shit sticks around in our languages? It makes sense when thought of as a representation of Anglo-saxon supremacy and imperialism, but still sucks!
I lost after he said ''and Switzerland had tropical beaches''
Im from a berber tribe in north africa and i affirm this information
Im from beni snous in tlemcen montains west algeria and in our village there is caves under the ground where our incestors used to live ... the caves are made in a wonderfull way where there is a kitchen a sallon and passages to othere "houses" and ways to bring water to the caves .... and in tamazight ifri means cave so yes .. africa is from the word ifri
Petition to rename Australia as Thief.
🤣🤣🤣 let's go ! Sounds like a novel idea
In Portuguese we usually call the whole continent "America" but divide it into three regions: North America (the northern cone that contains Canada, US and Mexico), South America (the southern cone) Central America (the lands that connect Mexico to Colombia + the Caribbean).
Fun fact, the Southern cone is a region of South America that is comprised by Argentina, Chile and Uruguay (sometimes Paraguay and southern Brazil are included).
Another fun fact, the Northern cone you mentioned doesn't look at all like a cone!
México has never been connected to Colombia, what the hell are you talking about
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I think he meant the lands between them, and if I'm not mistaken, Mexico very much used to border Colombia, back when much of Central America was under the sovereignty of Mexico and Panama was still part of Colombia.
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As I Mexican I should recall the fact that this land had two names back then. From south nicarangua to northern Canada it was called “Anawak” (entirely surrounded by water) and from Nicaragua (which probably comes from a Spanish adaptation of “Nikan Anawak” (end of Anawak) ) to the Patagonia it was called Tawantinsuyo. Sadly I do not speak that language and cannot translate. But feel free to research all of this. I just think it is important to highlight the presence and history of the first groups of people to actually name this land.
Ok .... Anáhuac y ¿de qué otra cosa estás hablando? Pero no hay forma de que los mexicas supieran de la existencia de patagonia o alaska, como para ser prepotentes al respecto.
Por supuesto que se conocían :) estaba completamente interconectado el continente. Tantos los inuit sabían de Meshiko, como los Kechwas o Inkas, asi igual que los meshikas sabían de los Inuit, y pasa lo mismo con lo que hoy en día es llamado Sudamérica. Recuerda que hace más 8000 años que la civilización comenzó en Anawak y Tawantinsuyo. Prueba de esto es que el tonalpowalli (cuenta calendárica meshika) actualmente se encuentra en el año 5745 y sigue llevándose hasta hoy en día con la misma exactitud de hace miles de años. Es por eso que podemos tener tan bien registro de tantos eventos sucedidos en el antiguo Mexico con tanta precisión. Saludos!
@@aweboish China y alemania están conectados ¿tú crees que los germanos sabían de lo que sucedía en china en tiempos del imperio romano?
@@dragovern Actually, yes. Trade was common with Hindu Kush in the Macedonian area. Hindu Kush was a region of north India and western china. This also was common in the Roman era.
In my language there's actually only two continents lol(it gets really confusing when trying to refer to some places and racist terms often get used or sometimes we just talk about it in English there's only the old world and new world or actually the "new world" is turtle island and the old world is "the new lands" yes it gets kinda confusing
I really feel the English pronunciation of the Greek names does not help seeing the similarities to their roots
I agree. He was pronouncing the "Eu" in Europa as "you", instead of "E (as in pet) and U (as in pull)" which is also arguably incorrect. It could also have been pronounced as "Ev" like in modern Greek.
Europa riding the bull's back sounds suspiciously like certain Minoan bull-leaping ceremonies, only half-remembered through the mists of time. Edit: Europa doesn't sound particularly Greek, but then there are many elements in pre-classical Greek that are thought to come from elsewhere. For example the "Nthos" element (IE the Pre-Greek Substrate Hypothesis).
Switzerland had tropical beaches. Those were the days. Everything used to be better in the old days, now I'm freezing my ass off here.
can we take a moment to appreciate how much Herodotus helped to preserve ancient european history?
naming it penguinia wouldn't solve the problem neither
the word penguin originally refered to a black and white flightless bird *but from the north* (the extinct great auk)
but when explorers went south and saw a similar black and white flightless bird they gave it the name and changed it for the norther bird
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Cogito is addictive 😂
That was cool. Informative and entertaining. The accent was a grand bonus!
Is the fact that Asia used to refer to modern day Turkey the reason why Turkey is also called "little asia" sometimes??
Yeap. That region was called Asia first. Then the named expanded to all the land behind it. So it became Asia Minor compared to Asia Major.
“Liberation” under the management of any government or political set-up - what’s that got to do with freedom?"
- Nestor Ivanovych Makhno
I highly doubt you'd survive in a true anarchic freedom by Makhno, his "boiz" were a bunch of bandits who took anything they need from the locals "in the name of revolution" by force. In anarchy "only strong survives, weaklings should perish" which is ok up to the early medieval, by kinda f***d up later
i love how these analyses work further than showing etymology
it makes sense now that the boundary of europe and asia is so well-defined next to greece, they first decided that's a distinction they should make
europe can of course be considered an entitled peninsula on a large eurasian landmass but on that peninsula they really liked the ancient greeks and cataloguing peoples (to put it mildly), so the distinction was further stretched to the reach of the oceans
Standardized spelling is a very recent development, so I wouldn’t read too much into the extra u dropping out of Euruopa.
Great vid though, love the animations!
The fact that the first and last letter of every continent name with same letter..
AsiA
EuropE
AmericA
AfricA
AustraliA
AntarticA
Only in English. In romantic languages we call them different names
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I have a homebrew alt-earth D&D setting and I am totally stealing Pengunia for Antarctica lol. I also love how Australia bitch-slapped Antarctica and stole its name in the animation.
Haha awesome!
Dude wtf I have my own world / planet too we are the same xD
Do make a video on how oceans got their name and history of the oceans.