Out of all the seven continents in the world, Europe is the sixth-largest or the second-smallest continent. It merely covers 2% of Earth’s surface with a population of 748.789,218 residing there.

Geologists have meticulously classified and given names to every phase of Earth’s roughly 4.54-billion-year existence. These intervals of time are referred to as eons, eras, periods, and ages, going from longest to shortest.