Isn’t technically a continent. It’s two?
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Nah, he is dropping a very good sword you could take.
Correct. North America and South America are considered separate, so should Northern EK and Southern EK. A long bridge =/= a continuous landmass.
Does that mean Kalimdor is also multiple continents? Europe, Asia and Africa are all separate, despite sharing a land border.
What it means is that our modern usage of “continent” has nothing to do with its literal definition and people who historically designated various landmasses as continents had no idea what the actual geography of the world looked like.
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I don’t know what its historical definition, but Google tells me the current definition is based off of “continuous expanses of land”. There are no rules saying that those expanses need to be separated or delineated.
Hell, Eastern Kingdoms is actually three continents, isn’t it? Azeroth, Khaz Modan and Lordaeron?
Basically, the reason I bring up historical context is that they did not know that (for example) Europe and Asia were the same landmass at the time they named them separate continents.
The original intent of the word was that a continent was a continuous self-contained expanse of land. They just didn’t know that these pieces of land were connected.
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No, those are political boundries IE Nations. Modern continents are designated by the continental plates or tectonic plates in the earths crust, obviously before we could map the sea floor we didn’t really know all this and was just hypothesized.
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By your definition Australia, the New Zealand North Island, the New Zealand South Island, Great Britain, Ireland, Iceland, Greenland, etc. etc. are all ‘continents’.
Clearly a ridiculous definition!
… Australia is a continent.
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Without knowing much about Warcraft history, are they really political boundaries? They encompass disputed and hostile zones (“countries?”), so how could they be part of the same nation/empire - for example, Searing Gorge and Burning Steppes.
It seems that the definition of continent is pretty blurred and arbitrary, often based off incomplete knowledge or juxtapositions of culture and shared history. Considering that Azeroth, Lordaeron and Khaz Modan are all still significant landmasses, it doesn’t seem a stretch for them to be considered as continents.
They’re territories of southern humans, dwarves, and northern humans basically, and the reason theres so much strife is the 3 wars the first destroyed Stormwind, the second reclaimed Stormwind when the Orcs were pushed back through the dark portal, the 3rd destroyed lordaeron as the Undead rolled over them and Quel Thelas, and the Dwarves have been at war with their cousins the Dark Iron dwarves, and the black rock orcs are hold outs from the first 2 wars. So in the span of a few decades these territories have been ravaged and rebuilt by war and ravaged again.
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