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Related: her predecessor quit suddenly and many journalists likely know why and aren’t telling
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![A report of the Battle of Poitiers composed by an anonymous Iberian Christian in 754 describes Charles Martel’s forces in Latin as Europeenses.[2] This is odd: use of the terms “Europe” and “European” was rare in this era. After the Persian Wars continents had been left for the most part to the geographers. As late as the first century BCE some Roman geographers were still unsure whether Europe and Africa were separate continents.[3] And in an empire that stretched across them all the concept was largely irrelevant.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:lzlqyldh7nfc34pfffvd24ko/bafkreibn5l5fxui5w5lmsr2flo7zju7iqdbdmqjlnoxrwiqlvpurejjxz4)
