... which makes up only 7 percent of the Earth’s land surface, has beencalled a small peninsula of Asia, and no clear geographical boundary de-marcates it from the rest of the Eurasian land mass. The ... were in Africa and Asia. Its rule did not extend durablybeyond the Rhine and the Danube, and in the British Isles, only Englandbecame part of it. Vast areas of central, northern, and eastern Europenever ... Europe has rarely coincided with the geographical en-tity that has been and is called “Europe,” and both have had uncertainand changing boundaries, especially to the east, toward Asia. Indeed,...