re: Does it piss you off that Europe is considered a separate continent?

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The geological argument is weak, but the geographical argument for the division is much better. Europe and Asia are very dissimilar and relatively isolated by a mountain range.

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The basis is more historical than geographical. The Greeks split it up that way and so later Europeans followed suit. I'm sure the division made sense to the Greeks in the 6th Century BC -- approximately the time the Greco-Persian wars began.