"Asia" is a term invented by the Greeks and Romans, and developed by Western geographers to indicate the land mass east of the Ural Mountains and Ural River, together with offshore islands such as Japan and Java. Culturally, no "Asia" exists, and the peoples who inhabit "Asia" often have little in common with each other.

Concepts

china, japan, korea, south asia, southeast asia, the himalayas, asia

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Additional Tags

khan academy, tibetan buddhist world, west asia, what is asia?, the persian world

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Classroom Considerations

• Knovation Readability Score: 2 (1 low difficulty, 5 high difficulty)