Eurasia
Speech parts
1. Eurasia - Noun
2. Eurasia - Proper noun
Meaning
the land mass formed by the continents of Europe and Asia
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According to current archeological and genetic models, there were at least two notable expansion events subsequent to peopling of Eurasia 2-1.5 million years BP.
A history of Russia, Central Asia and Mongolia, Vol. 1: Inner Eurasia from prehistory to the Mongol Empire.
Arguably the most herbivorous diets have come from the warmer temperate parts of Eurasia as more than 90% of the diet may be herbivorous.
A second wave of humans may have dispersed across the Sinai Peninsula into Asia, resulting in the bulk of human population for Eurasia.
Although the dog-like hyenas thrived 15 million years ago (with one taxon having colonised North America), they became extinct after a change in climate along with the arrival of canids into Eurasia.
Background seeAlso Atlantic travel The Atlantic slave trade arose after trade contacts were first made between the continents of the " Old World " (Eurasia and Africa) and those of the " New World " (North America and South America).