How did Asia get it's name?

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Also if you can help?? What islands are part of the Antilles?

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The word Asia entered English, via Latin, from Ancient Greek Ασία (Asia; see also List of traditional Greek place names). This name is first attested in Herodotus (about 440 BC), where it refers to Asia Minor; or, for the purposes of describing the Persian Wars, to the Persian Empire, in contrast to Greece and Egypt. Herodotus comments that he is puzzled as to why three women's names are used to describe one land mass (Europa, Asia and Libya, referring to Africa), stating that most Greeks assumed that Asia was named after the wife of Prometheus but that the Lydians say it was named after Asias, son of Cotys who passed the name on to a tribe in Sardis.

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The Antilles (the same in French; Antillas in Spanish; Antillen in Dutch) refers to the islands forming the greater part of the West Indies in the Caribbean. The Antilles are divided into two major groups: the "Greater Antilles" to the north including the larger islands of Cuba, Jamaica, Hispaniola (Haiti and Dominican Republic), and Puerto Rico; and the smaller "Lesser Antilles" on the southeast — comprising the northerly Leeward Islands, the southeasterly Windward Islands, and the Leeward Antilles just north of Venezuela. The Bahamas, though part of the West Indies, are generally not included among the Antillean islands.[1]

The Greater Antilles are made up of continental rock, as distinct from the Lesser Antilles, which are mostly young volcanic or coral islands.

Geographically, the Antilles are typically reckoned as part of North America. Cuba, Dominican Republic, and Puerto Rico – due to the prevalence of Spanish – are included in Latin America

Greater Antilles.

Cuba

Hispaniola

Dominican Republic

Haiti

Jamaica

Puerto Rico (U.S. commonwealth)

Cayman Islands (geographical zone under Cuba)

Lesser Antilles

Anguilla (Br.)

Antigua and Barbuda

Aruba (Neth.)

Barbados

Bonaire (Neth. Ant.)

British Virgin Islands

Curaçao (Neth. Ant.)

Dominica

Grenada

Guadeloupe (Fr.)

Martinique (Fr.)

Montserrat (Br.)

Netherlands Antilles (Neth.)

Redonda (part of Antigua and Barbuda)

Saba (Neth. Ant.)

Saint Barthélemy (Fr.)

Saint Kitts and Nevis

Saint Lucia

Saint Martin (Fr.)/ Sint Maarten (Neth. Ant.)

Saint Vincent and the Grenadines

Saint Eustatius (a.k.a. "Statia") (Neth. Ant.)

Trinidad and Tobago

U.S. Virgin Islands

Answer 2

In early Classical times, the term "Asia" referred only to the small region known today as Anatolia (a part of Turkey). Eventually however, the name came to denote the much larger land area with which we associate it today.

The etymology of Asia can only be guessed at. The strongest possibility is that it derives from a borrowed Semitic root "Asu", which means varyingly 'rising' or 'light', of course a directional referring to the sunrise, Asia thus meaning 'Eastern Land'.

Antilles:

The Antilles (the same in French; Antillas in Spanish; Antillen in Dutch) refers to the islands forming the greater part of the West Indies in the Caribbean. The Antilles are divided into two major groups: the "Greater Antilles" to the north including the larger islands of Cuba, Jamaica, Hispaniola (Haiti and Dominican Republic), and Puerto Rico; and the smaller "Lesser Antilles" on the southeast — comprising the northerly Leeward Islands, the southeasterly Windward Islands, and the Leeward Antilles just north of Venezuela. The Bahamas, though part of the West Indies, are generally not included among the Antillean islands.

Source(s): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Placename_etymology#A... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antilles

Answer 3

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Answer 4

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Answer 5

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