New elementary geography : adapted for use in Canadian schools . ch innic crowded, for Europehas nearly lour times as many inhabitants asthe whole of Nortli Anieiiea. Wlial |iart()fl,ui-(ipt is most thickly settled?(See map below.) What pai-t s have the fewestinhabitants ? Even in the less thickly settledparts there are mofc people than in the wholeof North America. The most highly civilizedpeople in Europe live in the thickly settledparts. They have electric liohts, railways,and telegraph lines as we liave, and they canreceive news from all parts of the world Ijymeans of telegraph caliles whi
New elementary geography : adapted for use in Canadian schools . ch innic crowded, for Europehas nearly lour times as many inhabitants asthe whole of Nortli Anieiiea. Wlial |iart()fl,ui-(ipt is most thickly settled?(See map below.) What pai-t s have the fewestinhabitants ? Even in the less thickly settledparts there are mofc people than in the wholeof North America. The most highly civilizedpeople in Europe live in the thickly settledparts. They have electric liohts, railways,and telegraph lines as we liave, and they canreceive news from all parts of the world Ijymeans of telegraph caliles which have beenlaid on llie bottom ortiic ocean lioui Europeto each of the other grand divisions. White men first came to live in Americaabout the year 1500. How long ago wasthat ? That seems a long time ago. Yet theancestors of some of the white people ofEurope lived in that grand division not onlyhundreds, but , of years ago. The white jieople who settled our coimtrywere civilized when they came from Iuropeand coiKiuered the .savage inhal)ifaiits whom. The dots show where the most people live. 112 EUROPE. they found here. Thousands of years ago thewhite people of Europe were themselves sav-ages. The first portion of Europe to become civil-ized was the Grecian peninsula. The Greekswere conquered by the Romans of the Italianpeninsula, who learned nuich from the con-quered Greeks, and became the most civilizedpeople of Enrope. They made fine roads, wrotemany books, raised big armies, and conqueredall western Europe. Where is France? Spain?England ? The Romans conquered these coun-tries and made good laws for the people. Where is the German Empire ? The savagetribes who lived in that region finally con-quered the Romans, and learned civilizationfrom Where is Denmark! Norway? Sweden?The parly people of that region were calledNorthmen. Why? They were bold seamenwho sailed about the northern seas, murderingand robbing the people in the more civilizedlands. But they gra
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