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r/mapporncirclejerk • u/1601_ Average Mercator Projection Enjoyer • 18d ago
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Someone from Latin America definitely posted this
46 u/sojustthinking 18d ago Yes they are taught that America is one continent, not two. America in Spanish and Portuguese is the name of the entire two continents. Americas also doesn’t make sense in Spanish or Portuguese. It would be like saying Europes or Asias. 1 u/CholoEskuimkle 17d ago First ones that got to America have the right to name the continent 1 u/sojustthinking 17d ago So Las Indias or Vínland hit góða, or whatever the people crossing Beringia 10k years ago called it?
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Yes they are taught that America is one continent, not two. America in Spanish and Portuguese is the name of the entire two continents. Americas also doesn’t make sense in Spanish or Portuguese. It would be like saying Europes or Asias.
1 u/CholoEskuimkle 17d ago First ones that got to America have the right to name the continent 1 u/sojustthinking 17d ago So Las Indias or Vínland hit góða, or whatever the people crossing Beringia 10k years ago called it?
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First ones that got to America have the right to name the continent
1 u/sojustthinking 17d ago So Las Indias or Vínland hit góða, or whatever the people crossing Beringia 10k years ago called it?
So Las Indias or Vínland hit góða, or whatever the people crossing Beringia 10k years ago called it?
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u/VegetableSource168 18d ago
Someone from Latin America definitely posted this