Instead, arm yourself with the stats seen in these cool maps of Europe. After all, who knows what geography questions they'll help answer at the next trivia night? Although not as common as in the ...

Because the world is a sphere, it is difficult to accurately project this on a two-dimensional map. When the world is ... seven continents and five oceans. Europe is a continent.

A Spy, a Map, and the Quest for Power in 16th-Century Europe In 1502, as Europeans hungrily looked to the vast new continent across the Atlantic Ocean, innovative maps of these unfamiliar ...

but much of present-day Europe is based on the lines drawn following the conflict sparked by Princip's bullet. (Pull cursor to the right from 1914 to see 1914 map and to the left from 2014 to see ...

World War I involved 32 nations from 1914 to 1919. It redrew the world map and reshaped many borders in Europe. The collapse of the Russian Empire created Poland, the Baltics, and Finland.