Following episodes 11 and 2, we now turn to exploring how and why the different regions of the world of Altera got their names.  Other topics covered: the four ways to divide the continent of Africa; Eritrea as an exonym; Nubia's Baqt treaty's connection to the Zanj Rebellion in Mesopotamia;  an Zanj, Zanzibar, and Azania as cognates and Sudan as an analogous term; defining the new boundaries for Asia; the many possible etymologies of Siberia; reapplying the Greco term Taprobana to Australia; how places like Guinea, Ethiopia, Thule, and Hesperia were geographic moving targets until recently; the emerging political geography of Turtle Island; and lamentations for missed opportunities of basing place names on Tierra del Fuego, Andina, and the Caribbean.

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