Silas looked at the ancient parchment one last time. The Euroasiático Africano mapa didn't show a divided world. It showed a supercontinent of culture, blood, and history that no ocean could truly separate.
In the real world, the Strait of Gibraltar was a narrow ribbon of water separating Europe from Africa. But on this map, drawn sometime in the late 16th century, there was no water. The Iberian Peninsula and the Maghreb were fused by a thick, jagged line of mountains labeled in a mix of Old Castilian and Arabic: The Backbone of the World .
For the region, a physical-political hybrid is ideal.