 Asia is the largest of the six continents of the Earth. It occupies an area of 43.82 million square kilometers, about one-third of the total land surface of the planet. It is also the continent with most residents, about 2.2 billion. To the west are united in the European peninsula. The natural borders of Europe are the Ural Mountains, the Caspian Sea, Mount Caucasus, Black Sea and the Hellespont. From Africa to Asia is separated from the Suez Canal and Red Sea. In the south bordering the Indian Ocean on the east by the Pacific Ocean, while the Bering Strait separating it from the American continent and particularly from Alaska. On the north coast of the northern frozen ocean.
Archaeological findings show that Asia is inhabited for thousands of years and has hosted notable people in its territory. The first historical civilizations placed in a season three thousand years before the birth of Christ. Three main centers of civilization was in Asia. The first center was near the current Mesopotamia and placed chronologically around 3,000 BC In this region the first cultures created by the Sumerians. Around the same time, another culture developed in the second center in the area of present India. At the same time in China, regarded as the third center of civilization in Asia, created the first Chinese state organization with the Chiang dynasty - Yin.
The central part of Asia was probably the site of origin of the Aryan race which reached a part of the Ganges River and established the Vedic culture, while others arrived in Europe. Among these people who arrived in Europe and the Greeks. Then, a remarkable culture created by the Arabs and later the Mongols led by Genghis Khan created the great Mongol Empire.
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