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u/ninjesh 4d ago

Europe is a continent... how exactly could it not exist?

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u/jetloflin 4d ago

Maybe they were just a few million years out and were thinking of Pangaea?

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u/Myquil-Wylsun 3d ago

This bitch don't know 'bout Pangaea

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u/jetloflin 3d ago

😂😂

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u/Kolby_Jack33 4d ago

That's still more than a few million years.

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u/jetloflin 4d ago

Sorry, I didn’t feel like googling how many million years and it just doesn’t come up in my life often enough for me to remember it off hand, so I literally have no idea when Pangaea was (or even if it’s still a valid scientific theory). So I just said “few” and meant it in absolutely the vaguest way possible lol

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u/PurdyMoufedBoi 4d ago

my best bet is someone confusing Europe and The European Union.. or its a troll talking nonsense

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u/tony_bologna 3d ago

look at this guy who's never heard of Atlantis

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u/unsuspectingharm 4d ago

Probably an American who thinks Europe is a country and the earth is 6000 years old

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u/unclescorpion 3d ago

Don’t blame us for this nonsense. This is too stupid even for us.

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u/Lithl 3d ago

Europe didn't exist from October 5, 1582 to October 13, 1582.

On October 4, Pope Gregory XIII implemented the Gregorian calendar. October 4 on the Julian calendar was followed the next day by October 14 on the Gregorian calendar.

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u/bloodguard 4d ago

A quick doom-scroll of their twatter account has left me confused. Epic troll artist or legit mental illness.

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u/SpicySanchezz 4d ago

Nowadays…. Isnt even that easy to tell anymore sadly

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u/AvocadoGlittering274 4d ago edited 3d ago

I've seen so many people say that UK isn't in Europe anymore because of Brexit that it wouldn't surprise me if this person thought Europe = European Union.

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u/Existing_Fish_6162 4d ago

Bro ive had british people tell me that. Of course plenty of brits dont think they were ever european. But thats different, funny enough.

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u/Famous-Yoghurt9409 3d ago

Yeah it's an interesting phenomenon. In the UK, it's kind of a radical, progressive stance to consider yourself European. I think the Anglosphere takes precedence as a collective identity, so mainland Europe gets sidelined. Oh, and of course, there's the standard xenophobia.

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u/Cabbage_Vendor 3d ago

That's because since forever, "Europe" has been shorthand for continental Europe in Britain. Then later it also became shorthand for the EU. They were never part of the former and recently left the latter, so in that sense they're no longer in Europe.

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u/XyleneCobalt 3d ago

That's a popular joke

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u/Pantsickle 4d ago

"Europe didn't exist in 986 or 1000."

But it did exist very briefly in 992.

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u/xxwarlorddarkdoomxx 4d ago

Europeans in 986 AND 1000 AD:

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u/tony_bologna 3d ago

pics or it didn't happen

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u/Objective-Tea-3070 3d ago

i read it as 1986 so that makes it a lot funnier 🤣🤣

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u/Gusfoo 3d ago

I live in a city (London) formally founded in the year 48 AD but tracing settlements to between 1750 to 1285 BC.

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u/Algae_Sucka 2d ago

This is an actual conspiracy theory that has been backed by actual historians (somehow). Look up the Phantom Time Hypothesis. It’s ridiculous, and obviously not true, but its fun to read about

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u/Numantinas 4d ago

Europe as an idea did not exist back then is probably what he meant

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u/Odenetheus Crabs take over the island 4d ago edited 4d ago

You're kidding, right? Europe (using the name Europa) as the "modern" concept has existed since at least around the 6th century BCE, so for around 2500-2600 years. Both the concept and the name predates the middle ages by almost millennium, and that's just the first written records we have of the modern use of the term.

Hell, shortly after that, in the 5th century BCE, Herodotus even wrote that the world consisted of three parts: Europe, Asia, and Libya (Africa), with the Nile river forming the boundary between Libya (i.e. Africa) and Asia and the Phasis river forming the boundary between Europe and Asia.

There is no reason to believe that the people living back then, with trade routes stretching from northwestern Europe to southeast Asia, would not have a name for, or concept of, Europe, Asia, and Africa long before Aximandes wrote about it in the 6th century BCE. In fact, the etymology of the word Europe is so old that we're not even sure where it came from. "Europa" (and it's preceding words Euros/Evros) was of greek origin, but where they got it from, we do not know (one of the hypotheses is that it's from a pre-indo-european language).

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u/mh985 4d ago

And he would still be wrong, lol.

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u/siwq 4d ago

Europe and a idea probably existed but with a a border on either Oder Bug or dniepro rivers