How many continents are there?

[Bucky Ball]

(11-10-2012 07:25 PM)Dark Light Wrote:  

(11-10-2012 06:25 PM)Bucky Ball Wrote:  Depends what time period you're talking about.

How about the 2012-2012 era? If I asked you "Who is the president of America?" would your response be "When? The Presidents of the United States of America."?

Prolly.
There is a reason my sig is "insufferable-know-it-all.

[Dark Light]

(11-10-2012 11:11 PM)Bucky Ball Wrote:  

(11-10-2012 07:25 PM)Dark Light Wrote:   How about the 2012-2012 era? If I asked you "Who is the president of America?" would your response be "When? The Presidents of the United States of America."?

Prolly.
There is a reason my sig is "insufferable-know-it-all.

Bleh! But if we are going to de-rail here, there have been 6 supercontinents, and possibly seven that we have evidence of. The history, and possible future of supercontinents

[Free Thought]

I was taught: Australasia (Oceania), N. & S. America, Asia, Europe, Africa, Antarctica. Along with the Indian and Middle Eastern sub-continents.

I like to use a 4-continent model. Afro Eurasia, America, Australia (Australasia/Oceania) Antarctica.. Mostly because I don't get most of the divisions, they seem unnecessary.

Though, I will I will reserve judgement on the poll.

[Humakt]

(11-10-2012 04:15 PM)Aseptic Skeptic Wrote:  I went with 6.

South America: 2 bonus armies
Australia: 2 bonus armies
Africa: 3 bonus armies
Europe: 5 bonus armies
North America: 5 bonus armies
Asia: 7 bonus armies, but you can never hold it.

LOL

[earmuffs]

(11-10-2012 10:31 PM)Dark Light Wrote:  

(11-10-2012 08:52 PM)earmuffs Wrote:  lol!
Check your source brah.
I believe you took that from wiki. It says 5% is rock. But what it is referring too is coast line, 5% of the coast line is rock.

This is the map you should be looking at:


All the green is above sea level.

Huh? You criticized my source, and the used the same source? Eh, whatever....so your map shows the land under the ice, and the green is what it above sea level but it is still below ice. It isn't exposed land.

Parts of the source is what I meant.
Same source, different parts. Like different chapters in the same book.

So what it's not exposed? You can still walk on it, you can build on it, you can travel on it etc... Only the ice sheets melt away.
Hell, there is roughly 60 people on Antarctica living there for several months as we speak.

The point of a continent is that it's a large land mass. Antarctica is a large land mass that isn't near or part of any other land mass. So hence it's a continent.

How did you not know Antarctica had land? seriously?

[Aseptic Skeptic]

(12-10-2012 02:59 AM)Humakt Wrote:  

(11-10-2012 04:15 PM)Aseptic Skeptic Wrote:  I went with 6.

South America: 2 bonus armies
Australia: 2 bonus armies
Africa: 3 bonus armies
Europe: 5 bonus armies
North America: 5 bonus armies
Asia: 7 bonus armies, but you can never hold it.

LOL

Thanks for the LOL, I thought I had gone unnoticed...

[kingschosen]

(12-10-2012 09:44 AM)Aseptic Skeptic Wrote:  

(12-10-2012 02:59 AM)Humakt Wrote:  LOL

Thanks for the LOL, I thought I had gone unnoticed...

I always won because I would sit on Australia and let my friends beat the crap out of each other while I built up my army slowly but surely.

Then... I would blitzkrieg them.

My friends caught on after a couple of games, though. They started teaming up on me : /

[Erxomai]

There are 8.
You all forgot to count Muffy's mom.

[Chas]

And the correct answer is more like 8. The definitions being used seem to be ones of convention. The more precise answer is look at the tectonic plates.
Eurasian
Arabian
Australian (includes India)
Antarctic
North American
Caribbean
South American
African

[Logica Humano]

(11-10-2012 05:26 PM)ClydeLee Wrote:  We have a canal through it now but discounting that their still connected.

Funny as a kid I've been taught of 7 continents.

North America, South America, Africa, Asia, Antarctica, Australia, and Europe.

In that case, let's make one called Broken Pangaea.