Original sentence: A 1389 A.Chinese map painted on 17 sq.Europe is purely a Western, political, creation, artificially dividing a continent according to views held by the Western peoples.Europe's eastern frontier is in dispute; some delineate it by the Ural Mountains in Russia.It shows one continent.Physiographically, Europe is an arbitrarily chosen portion of the northwestern constituent of the larger landmass known as Eurasia, or Afro-Eurasia: in the viewpoint of the Western nations of this mass, Asia occupies the eastern bulk of this continuous landmass 'over there', though both east and western peoples are actually located within a common continental shelf and are part of a common tectonic plate, the Eurasian_Plate.The western boundary is the Atlantic Ocean; Iceland, which actually straddles the Eurasian_Plate and the North_American_Plate, though nearer to Greenland (North America) than mainland Europe, is generally included in Europe.This highlights further the arbitrary boundaries of 'Europe' today.This was the view from the Eastern peoples.meters of silk does not show a boundary between 'Europe' and 'Asia' (The Da Ming Hun Yi Tu, or Amalgamated Map of the Great Ming Empire)
Edited sentence: Europe's eastern frontier is now commonly delineated by the Ural Mountains in Russia.Physiographically, Europe is the northwestern constituent of the larger landmass known as Eurasia, or Afro-Eurasia: Asia occupies the eastern bulk of this continuous landmass and all share a common continental shelf.The western boundary is the Atlantic Ocean; Iceland, though nearer to Greenland (North America) than mainland Europe, is generally included in Europe