Intercultural studies analyzes aspects such as language, culture, politics, religion and others that may be helpful in helping learners develop and foster a more inclusive perspective of the world as a whole.

Europe is, by convention, one of the world's seven continents. Comprising the western most point of Eurasia, Europe is usually divided from Asia by the watershed divides of the Ural and Caucasus Mountains, the Ural River, the Caspian and Black Seas, and the waterways connecting the Black and Aegean Seas.