Until just a few centuries ago most of the world population was split between Europe (West) and East Asia (East).

Plenty of people genuinely believed that if you were to navigate to the West of Europe you would fall off the border of the world (well, some still do).

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SketchySeaBeast 4 days ago | parent | next [-]

> Until just a few centuries ago most of the world population was split between Europe (West) and East Asia (East).

What about Africa? North and South America?

> Plenty of people genuinely believed that if you were to navigate to the West of Europe you would fall off the border of the world (well, some still do).

Did they? Who in particular are you referencing here? Are you perhaps falling for the myth of the flat earth[1]?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myth_of_the_flat_Earth

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dragonwriter 4 days ago | parent | prev [-]

> Until just a few centuries ago most of the world population was split between Europe (West) and East Asia (East).

An outright majority of the world’s population was, and still is, in Asia, so I'm not sure what this split between is supposed to refer to. If you mean Europe was #2 behind Asi, that was true until the 1980s if the Americas are counted as one continent, otherwise the 1990s when Africa took the #2 spot, not “a couple centuries ago”.

	▲	vbarrielle 4 days ago \| parent [-]
		Your parent post meant that a few centuries ago, the american continent was not known, so the known world could be split between east and west.