Around 2000 B.C., the Jews settled in this area called Palestine, already inhabited by other peoples.
Later on, great empires took over the place and forced the Jews into Diaspora (forced migration), while their hope was still on returning to this land, which they called Zion.
After, a few more centuries that land became occupied by Arab Muslims called Palestinians, and under rules of the British.
There also emerged a movement named Zionism: an international call to the Jews to form an independent state in Palestine.
With this, by the 1800's, this people started migrating to Zion, which was more populated by Jews by the 1930's, due to Nazi persecutions.
Once the Jews were one third of Palestine's population, conflicts were heightened, which made the British hand over the situation to an United Nations' Partition Plan.
This plan gave 55% of the territory to the Jews and 45% to the Arabs.
Once Jews proclaimed their independent state, there began a series of conflicts with their neighbor Arab countries (Egypt, Lebanon, Iraq, etc); the first war was won by Israel, increasing thus its legal territory, but these continued until nowadays
As the Palestinians did not have a declared state, many of them were expelled from their homes by the Jews, living as refugees; this exodus is known as NAKBA (catastrophe, in their language).
It's a continent with very low density and high tourism activities.
Has mostly deserts and forests such as tropical, equatorial, temperate and subtropical.
It's mostly formed by Australia (considered an island-continent itself), but also has small islands with volcanic activity (many of which belong to other countries) and atolls.
These islands are divided into 3: Polynesia (east), Melanesia (central) and Micronesia (north).