This is an interesting intellectual exercise that has real merit. We have long treated India et al to its natural geographical boundarues as a so called sub continent. It has a long historical span alpng with a certain deep cultural homogenity with plenty of objections.
what makes it a subcontinent is that it can be studied as a deeply linked super community that is far less densely linked to external geographical regions.
In those terms the eastern half of China is obvious as is Europa to the eastern Carpatheans.
All these represent approximately 5,000,000 square kilometers and all theree are well populated..
Extending this idea we have additional sub contienets as well. In fact in terms of communication they are pretty consistent. We have the five million Russian Steppe, The Easstern Caspian Steppe between the persian mountains and the northern forest and the Tibetan Mongolian Steppe. Lightly populated they still have geographic integrity aloowing their commonalities to be investigated.
Then we have an Eurasian middle East between africa and Persia - afghanistan abutting the caucases which is historically well developed and will now recover. Again commonality is worth studing.
All these sub contenents are around 5 million square kilometers and are naturally internally connected allowing a concentrated approach that largely omits the border regions.
Because it is Eurasia, the weight of history allows this approach and alternative dispensations have had time to wind down. Think Alexander and Rome.
India 5 mill
Europe 5 mill
The russian steppe 5 mill
Eastern China 5 mill
Se Asia 5 mill
Tibet Mongolia 5 mill
The boreal Forest 12 mill
The Caspian Steppe 5 mill
The fertile cresent, saudi arabia and Turkey 5 mill
Persian mountains and afghanistan 5 mill
total 55 mill
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