New geographies . SUROPE 187 dreds of years ago wars were very fre-quent, — much more so than now, Peo-s. ortheirqnar- P^^ especially those whoreis separate were not Separated eitherby water or by mountains,often quarreled with one another, wentto war, and finally set up different gov-ernments. What countries do yoii findon the map that do not seem to be cutoff from their neighbors, on all sides,either by water or by mountains ? Australia, it is the smallest of all thecontinents. The whole of Europe isonly a little larger than the UnitedStates, including Alaska. Yet it con-tains five times as
New geographies . SUROPE 187 dreds of years ago wars were very fre-quent, — much more so than now, Peo-s. ortheirqnar- P^^ especially those whoreis separate were not Separated eitherby water or by mountains,often quarreled with one another, wentto war, and finally set up different gov-ernments. What countries do yoii findon the map that do not seem to be cutoff from their neighbors, on all sides,either by water or by mountains ? Australia, it is the smallest of all thecontinents. The whole of Europe isonly a little larger than the UnitedStates, including Alaska. Yet it con-tains five times as many inhabitantsas our country. This makes it plainthat Europe is much more thickly set-tled than the United States. „ „ ?J . !? 1 /? ^0^ Europe is In spite 01 the fact that the leading Europe is so small, it is really continentthe most important of all the continents.
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