. Europe and other continents . eddistant colonies. The sea, for-merly a protection to manyAsiatic people, has, in recenttimes, even been used as ahighway of attack upon European civiliza-tion has been adopted, as inJapan and parts of India,rapid progress has indicates the possibili-ties of these 252. More than half of thehuman race lives in Asia,two-thirds of them belong-ing to the yellow division (p. 73) while the remainder aremainly whites. But although there are more than eighthundred million human beings there, most of the conti-nent is sparsely settle
. Europe and other continents . eddistant colonies. The sea, for-merly a protection to manyAsiatic people, has, in recenttimes, even been used as ahighway of attack upon European civiliza-tion has been adopted, as inJapan and parts of India,rapid progress has indicates the possibili-ties of these 252. More than half of thehuman race lives in Asia,two-thirds of them belong-ing to the yellow division (p. 73) while the remainder aremainly whites. But although there are more than eighthundred million human beings there, most of the conti-nent is sparsely settled. The mountain slopes, the coldplateaus, the steppes, deserts, forests, and tundras supportbut few inhabitants (Fig. 253). In these places, hunting,fishing, and herding are the leading industries. Nearlyseven-eighths of the people dwell near the coast, especiallyon the river flood plains and deltas of the south and almost every foot of available land is cultivated,and soil is even transferred to boats on the Chinese women. Notice their feet. Itis a custom of the Chinese to preventthe feet of women from growing. PEOPLE 365 There is a wide difference between the religions beliefs ofthe Europeans and Asiatics (pp. 93-95). Christianity hasspread westward along the shores of the Mediterranean, butit has made little progress across the desert and mountainousland to the east, where earlier religions had a strong of the Asiatics are Brahmins or Buddhists, as were
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