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Originally posted by Torrere
I had not realized that Europe had ever been a continent in it's own right! Damn. Now I might have to stop ranting about Europe not being a continent .. and start ranting about how it should be treated as a subcontinent, like India!
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See that region of water in between Europe and Africa? That's called the Tethys Sea. When it closed up, that completely changed ocean currents, the climate of the entire world changed, and a ton of species were wiped out.
I'm trying to find more details on the net, but failing. Still, it's really cool how one seemingly insignificant geographic thing can change the entire world.