OK, so my history teacher was an even bigger idiot than I thought, because she taught us about Constantinople being in the Asian part of modern day Turkey.
As a matter of technicality, it is. As Constantinople has neighborhoods on both sides of the strait, it’s considered both European and Asian. A city of two continents.
This is a classical oriented map. As in “the orient (the east) is up”.
are you sure about that?
Ok yeah but like, plate tectonics innit
OK, so my history teacher was an even bigger idiot than I thought, because she taught us about Constantinople being in the Asian part of modern day Turkey.
As a matter of technicality, it is. As Constantinople has neighborhoods on both sides of the strait, it’s considered both European and Asian. A city of two continents.