When were the five continents determined?

The time to determine the name of the continent is different.

The origin of the names of the world's continents.

/bbs/dispbbs.asp？ BoardID = 32 & ampreplyID = 1 1426 & amp； id = 16 18 & amp； Skin = 1

The English name of Oceania is Oceania, which means "land in the Ocean", where "ocean" means "sea" and the suffix -ia means land. The name appeared in 18 12 and was named by Danish geographer Marte Braun.

Since the15th century, most countries in this region have successively become colonies of Spain and Portugal, and immigrants have flocked. /kloc-After the 0/9th century, these countries gained their independence. Due to more than 300 years of colonial rule, these countries were deeply influenced by the social system, customs, religious beliefs and cultural traditions of Spain and Portugal, and the local Indian language gradually replaced them. At present, except Portuguese in Brazil and French in Haiti, almost all countries in this region use Spanish as their national language.

French and Portuguese belong to the Romance family of Indo-European languages. Romance is the language of the Roman Empire, and the suburbs of ancient Rome that use this language are called latirm, so the Romance family is also called Latin family. Therefore, this vast land with Latin as the national language is called "Latin America".

1507, the book "The Story of Sea Travel" by Amerigo came out and made a sensation all over the world. This book describes the discovery of the New World in detail, and vividly describes and renders it. Amerigo announced the concept of the New World to the world and washed away the earth structure theory of medieval western geography. Therefore, several French scholars revised and supplemented Cosmology, the authoritative work of medieval geography, and named the New World after Amerigo in recognition of his outstanding contribution to human understanding of the world. This is the origin of the new world called America.

The full name of Europe is "Europa", and its origin, like that of Asia, was created by Phoenicians. "Europa" is a transliteration of "Europe", which literally translates as "the western sunset continent". It is transformed from the Phoenician word "ereb".

The ancient Greeks inherited the names of these two continents from Babylon. At the beginning of the 4th century AD, people regarded the Ural Mountains and ural river as the dividing line between the two continents, and the eastern part was called Asia, or Asia for short. Its west is called Europe, or Europe for short. This is the origin of Asian names.

In the 2nd century BC, the Romans invaded the area near Carthage (present-day Tunisia), and their leader was nicknamed "Scipio". In memory of this conqueror, the Roman rulers called this colony "Africa". At that time, the name "Africa" was limited to parts of North Africa. By the 2nd century AD, the Roman Empire's territory in Africa had extended to the whole of North Africa. The Romans and locals living here are called Africans, and the whole of North Africa is also called "Africa". Later, "Africa" was used to refer to the whole African continent.