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True or False: Dr. Wesey Muhammad says at one time planet Earth was called Asia
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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Ish Gebor: [QB] It's interesting to denote that the term Earth as the name for this planet is not that old. Perhaps Dr. Wesley Muhammad is referring to non-Western based maps? [QUOTE] Asia c. 1300, from Latin Asia, from Greek Asia, speculated to be from Akkadian asu "to go out, to rise," in reference to the sun, thus [b]"the land of the sunrise."[/b] Used by the early Greeks of what later was known as Asia Minor; by Pliny of the whole continent. [/QUOTE][URL=https://www.etymonline.com/search?q=asia]www.etymonline.com[/URL] [QUOTE] earth (n.) Old English eorže "ground, soil, dirt, dry land; country, district," also used (along with middangeard) for "the (material) world, the abode of man" (as opposed to the heavens or the underworld), from Proto-Germanic *ertho (source also of Old Frisian erthe "earth," Old Saxon ertha, Old Norse jörš, Middle Dutch eerde, Dutch aarde, Old High German erda, German Erde, Gothic airža), perhaps from an extended form of PIE root *er- (2) "earth, ground." The earth considered as a planet was so called from c. 1400. Use in old chemistry is from 1728. Earth-mover "large digging machine" is from 1940. [/QUOTE][URL=https://www.etymonline.com/word/earth?ref=etymonline_crossreference#etymonline_v_941]www.etymonline.com[/URL] [QUOTE] old-world (adj.) 1712, "belonging to a prehistoric age," see old + world. Meaning "of or pertaining to Eurasia and Africa," as opposed to the Americas, is by 1877. The noun phrase Old World in this sense is by 1590s. The division of the earth into Old World and New World among Europeans dates to 1503 and Italian explorer Amerigo Vespucci's use of Latin Mundus Novus for the lands of the western hemisphere found by Columbus and others, indicating they were not part of Asia. [i]The Known World is usually divided into four Parts, Europe, Asia, Africk and America. But it is a most unequal Division, and I think it more rational to divide it thus. Viz. the Known World, first into two Parts, the Old and the New World; then the Old World into three, Europe, Asia, and Africa; and the New into two, the Northern and Southern America. [Guy Miege, "A New Cosmography, or Survey of the Whole World," London, 1682][/i] [/QUOTE][URL=https://www.etymonline.com/word/old-world#etymonline_v_2569]www.etymonline.com[/URL] [/QB][/QUOTE]
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