 Herodotus considered the Persian Wars of the early 5th century BC a conflict of Europa versus Asia (which he considered all land north and east of the Sea of Marmara, respectively).The terms ""West"" and "East" were not used by any Greek author to describe that conflict.The anachronistic application of those terms to that division entails a stark logical contradiction, given that the term ""West"" has been used to distinguish Latin-speaking peoples from their Greek-speaking neighbors.